American Witch
A\N: Hey! Guess why I had a sore throat! I'm sick! Whoopee! Just kidding. Not fun.
My weak, shivering self is writing this to make it feel better. So don't be surprised if this comes out a bit weirdI'm not feeling too good about thinking much. But you know, I'll probably be well by the time I get this posted, so not all of it will come out weird
So, here's Chapter 10 for you!
Disclaimer: Hi. I'm sick. Buzz off. Sorry, I get in bad moodsThe main characters of this story belong to me, and also some of the minor characters, including Jenny Chapman, my bee-a-uutiful Seer with the red hair. ^_^
And somebody PLEASE R/R!!! If somebody, anybody, reviews for more than one chapter, I'm going to take to thanking them in every single chapter.
Obviously nobody likes this, because I've only got 6 reviews. But this is simply screaming to be written. Sorry.
And you know, I thought this was an original idea? But somebody told me that there are lots of stories about American witches. But the story is original! Really! And I thought of the whole thing by myself! I've never read any fics with this stuff in it!
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Chapter 10: The Diary
1-7-02
Came back to Hogwarts today. Classes start again tomorrow. We did the usual New Year's Eve stuff when the year started, stayed up until midnight, blah, blah, blah. And I'm going to be the only one in the First Year Special thingy. *insert sobbing from me*
Elena, Amanda and I haven't talked since Christmas. I want to see that parchment. Unfortunately, Elena hasn't made it yet. I went to Amanda's house and used Floo Powder (VERY un-agreeable process, it's like being spun around and around and around and you just can't tell the person spinning you to stop, andugh).
Elena said she was going to take the Knight Bus though. Lucky her. Takes just a bit longer and there's all that jolting, but a least you STOP sometimes before you get to your destination. And then she has to walk up from Hogsmeade. Lucky again. She's probably loading up on pranks and sweets. The pranks are all rightbut FOOD? She's going to have to share with me!
Really, no wonder I'm so tall. It's like my body refuses to let me be fat and so I get to be tall because I eat so much.
It's good to be back at schoolWow, did I just say it was good to be back at school?!? I can't believe myself! I used to be antisocial. Now I'm actually slightly friendly. This school has taken away my personality! Oh well, this new one's more fun.
Oh, look! I just looked out the window and Elena's here! And then there's Kira, Andrea, and Stephanie in a carriage.
Goodbye! Going to greet my friends. I'd better throw this journal somewhere on the floor now, because it's quite difficult to write with Amanda dragging me downstairs by my wrist.
2 PM
Amanda and I greeted Elena, Kira, Andrea, and Stephanie, and then we talked for a bit. We all asked each other if we liked our Christmas presents and we all did, except I told Amanda that Idid not really like the makeup. She just laughed and said she knew I wouldn't. So I told her that unless she wanted a very complicated curse on her, she was never going to give me makeup for CHRISTMAS again. I mean, if that was all she'd given me, she would have ruined my good mood! And I can't get into a bad mood on Christmas! No, no, no
Then, after I finished making Amanda promise under threats of curses that she would never give me makeup again, we went downstairs and had lunch. Pretty boring really.
And now, I'm going to talk with Elena about that parchment, since that is much more interesting.
Oh, and speaking of Elena, it's her birthday tomorrow. I'm going to give her a piece of lint. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!! Sorry about that. Actually, I'm just going to give her some candy.
4 PM
Hello!
Well, I played a game of wizard chess with Elena in our dormitory, which I lost, and then I asked her if she still had the parchment.
Her exact response was something like, "Of course, you idiot! Why would I throw it away? That thing's valuable!"
So, I asked to have a little conversation with Jenny Chapman myself, and she agreed and handed it over.
Hesitantly, I took out my quill and wrote,
Hi, Jenny Chapman. My name is Kara Ramirez.
My writing disappeared from the page and some ink flowed back on in nice cursive handwriting.
Hello, Kara. Jenny Chapman the Seer at your service. Wanted to talk to me?
Yes, I did want to talk to you. You can't tell us anything more except that the key to your diary is metal, right?
Yes, and I said it had to fit also. Look for something in the shape of that wavy lineand something tells me it's right under your nose.
You're kidding me. I looked everywhere for something that would fit the stupid wavy line. Nothing.
You did look, but you didn't look in the right place. You've had the key all along, but I can't tell you any more. Can't reveal much, or my whole prophecy would be ruined.
So I'm guessing you can't tell me the prophecy?
Nope, sorry.
Well, bye then. I guess I'll just look some more.
I guess you will. Goodbye.
The words faded from the page and it was just as blank as before. Didn't help much.
How long am I going to have to look to find that stupid key?
Meanwhile, I'm going to go see if anyone will have a snowball fight or something with me, because I haven't seen snow since I lived in Virginia (a.k.a. since I was four). Maybe one of the boys willand I could get Mandy (Amanda, since I never call her "Mandy" in this diary) to attack him with me
1-8-02
Gave Elena her present. Hugs, eating candy, blah, blah, blah. Other people gave her much more interesting stuff. I'm not too good with presents.
Also sent my dad's present (his birthday's on the 10th), a moving picture of me with a caption saying, "I can't believe it's butter magic! Haha" Y'know, that commercial "I can't believe it's butter!" Not very funny. But as I said, I'm not too good with presents. I did the best I could.
1-17-02
Hola! Haven't had much time to write since school started again. Too much back-to-school homework. In fact, it was sheer luck I got my homework done by this time today.
Snow's fun, although it's starting to melt. Ah well, at least it was fun while it lastedand it'll snow here again next year!
Haven't found the stupid key yet. Jenny Chapman is really starting to annoy me with her talking parchment that doesn't talk much.
2-9-02
It's my mom's birthday in two days. Sent her a Howler (I've just acquired some of those) singing "Happy Birthday to You". I wasn't really able to find a good present, so I went for a singing card (the Howler). And of course it's going to blow up after it's done, which will add a lovely little fright
I sent it two days early so it would be sure to get there on time. I hate it when I get late birthday cards.
2-17-02
I found it! I found the key! After all our days of searchingIt's almost too good to be true.
It was really an accident, although I will maintain to everyone except you that I figured it out all on my ownBut anyway, this is what happened:
Well, I was looking at that metal S that I found in the attic for the first time in weeks. I was holding the diary in my other hand. I just stared at the diary, because I really could not figure out how to open it, and I was wondering what use that S was to Jenny Chapman, because it didn't help us at all, although it would have been a good present for one of the Muggles that used to be my friend, Salina, since it had her initial. To amuse myself, I started throwing the diary from hand to hand, with the S still in one hand.
Then, suddenly, as I threw the diary to the hand that the S was in, something went "CLICK". It sounded really loud in the silence, because I was just alone in the common room. I dropped the diary, and it rolled over when it hit the floor. And I noticed something.
The S had been pushed into the wavy line design on the back of the diary (that was what had made the click), and it fit perfectly. And suddenly, it all made sense. The S was the key to the diary. All I needed to do now was fit my fingers into the little circles at the sides and turn.
I did so, and as I turned, I discovered that the big circle around the line was really the outline of the lock, and the lock was turning. Then, something went "CLICK" again. I opened the diary.
And it actually opened! IT OPENED!!! On the very first page, it said:
An Account of the Events
In the Experience of
Jenny Chapman
It was her diary! I'd really found it!
I wrote Jenny Chapman to tell her of my success, and she said,
Well done.
Then her words just faded into the page again. I think she needs to talk more
Then, I went to tell Elena and Amanda. At the time, Elena was sleeping in the dormitory, and Amandawell, I'm not sure where Amanda was. But I happened to find her in a hallway. It was a really strange hallway too. All the paintings had fruit in them, and none of the other paintings at Hogwarts even had so much as an apple seed. It puzzled me.
When I first told them well, the results were different. Amanda was normal and jumped up and down and wanted to read it, but I felt like saving it for tomorrow, and Elena muttered a spell in her sleep and sent me flying out the window on a carpet that I happened to be sitting on when I told her, to the amusement and slight disapproval of Amanda, Kira, Adair and Adela, who all came into the room just as I was flying out the window.
Luckily, I had my wand with me so I managed to keep the carpet in the air instead of crashing in the lake. Then, I flew around for a little while--fun--and came back. Amanda had managed to shake Elena awake without being sent out the window, and Elena grinned when she was told what she'd done. Then, I flew back in on the carpet, took the spell off it to stop it floating, dragged her downstairs and told her about the key.
This time, her reaction was the same as Amanda's.
They both wanted to read it at once, but I'm saving it for tomorrow, and I hid the key so they can't steal it. I just feel like we should do this one step at a time, because it feels very important.
Well, bye until we read the diary!
2-18-02
We opened the diary today. I'm sounding way too pompous to myself, but oh wellyou probably can't tell.
I just opened the lock, same as before, and we all looked at the front page that I told you about. Then, on the next page, the real writing started.
The first entry was from the day before she got her letter. Apparently, she was really bored with her life that day. She was a half-blood, and her parents hadn't told her about the wizarding world, because she hadn't shown a single sign of being magic.
Then, on the next day, she got her letter when she was eleven. From what she wrote, she probably flooded the house in tears of happiness. She got her mom to teach her most of the spells you learn in first year in only a day. She was really excited about going.
The rest of the entries before September were about how she was getting ready and stuff, buying her things and all that. Also, while they were shopping in Diagon Alley one time, her mother told her that she (the mother) was a Seer. She didn't know that Jenny was a Seer as well, although she knew she could be.
The next few entries are about her being welcomed to Hogwarts and her first few days there. Then, it just starts in on the rest of the year.
Jenny knew she was a Seer when she had a dream about Harry Potter falling off his broom (yes, she went there at the same time as him!), and he fell off his broom the next day during a Quidditch match, and I recall that from the books. That was when she knew. She trained until she could See at a high level.
We read a few predictions that she wrote down, but none of it sounded like the kind of thing we were looking for. It was just ordinary stuff really.
We also found out why she had the parchment and stuff. She charmed the parchment so her mother could communicate with her from afar, and kept one for herself. That was the one we found. The attic was her hiding place for the diary and its key; that's where she wrote in it. The photo album was just a bunch of pictures her friends and other people, including herself, had taken of her that she wanted to keep. She hadn't put the potion on them so they would move, so that was why they stayed motionless when we were looking at them, because she just had a Muggle camera.
And can you believe we've only read through half the diary? We've split the other half among ourselves, and we're supposed to alert each other when we've found a prophecy.
I get the first third of the half, and I'll tell Elena where to start reading when I'm done. Then, Elena gets the next third, and tells Amanda where to starts reading when she's through. Then, Amanda finishes it. If somebody finds anything before Amanda, she gets some other thing that she wants because she doesn't get to read it.
We don't want to have to read any more than to where the prophecy is. We really should respect this girl's privacy, we all think. And Jenny told us very firmly herself that she didn't want us reading more than we had to of her diary. She was very reluctant to let us read it in the first place.
Well, I'm going to read the first third of the half now. That's confusing. Third of the half. Anyway, off to read!
10 PM
Well, I'm almost through. I've got about 10 more pages to read. Still haven't found anything very relevant, except for a few other dreams she had. She's getting around the end of her first year now.
I'll just read those last 10 pages, then go to bed, I think.
10:25 PM
Done reading my third. I've bookmarker where Elena's supposed to start reading. Didn't find anything myself. That means either Elena or Amanda are going to find it. Too bad. I would have liked to find it myself. My third ended just where the first year ended. That girl definitely liked to write. She took upabout 4 sixths of her diary, journal, whatever, with one year.
Well, actually, with my first three journals, I think it took me until around the beginning of the third journal to end my first year of writing in itJenny doesn't like writing as much as me. That, and her journal was thicker than my journals.
Well, good night! I'm tired.
2-19-02
Hi! I've given the diary to Elena so she can read it and reported my success, which was none, of course. I wonder if Elena will find the prophecy. I wonder what the prophecy is about. "The answer" isn't very specific. I'm guessing that it will sound important though.
2-20-02
Okay, here's Elena's report: She found an important-looking message in a dream, which she says looks like a prophecy, and she thinks it might have the something to do with "the answer" that we're looking for!
She didn't look at the diary until last night, apparently. And she says that she was just flipping through her third, and she felt she had this kind of knowledge of something, she didn't know what, that made her turn to the right page. It has to have something to do with Jenny. But I thought she couldn't tell too much! This is confusing
Anyway, I'm going to go look at the message along with Amanda, and then I'm planning to ask Jenny Chapman why she helped us when she said she couldn't reveal too much.
9 PM
I'm writing in the common room right now before I go to bed in a couple of hours.
I think the message is a prophecy. It's so weird and advice-like that it has to be, yet it makes sense, even if it's a weird kind of sense. Such is the skill of Jenny Chapman, apparently. Here it is:
One day, the world will be in great need, and there will be nine wizards and witches with powers surpassing most. They will help the world. It will be the task of the one who finds this message, not the one who hears it, to seek them out.
And here is my advice to the one on whom this task lies: Look for all the certain signs, and you will find the Powers of Nine.
First is the person who knows things they shouldn't. The Seer.
Second is the person who ghosts follow. The Medium.
Next, find the person who knows your every thought. The Telepathist.
Then, find the person who does strange things without spells. The Psychic.
Fifth is the person who all good things love. The Charmer.
Sixth is the person who talks with ourdistant relatives. The Linguist.
Next, find the person who understands the same group. The Interpreter.
Then, find the person who survives many things! The Cat Mage.
And last, but not least, find the person who seems completely normalbut looks are deceiving. The Expert of Fading.
When you have carried out these instructions, The Powers of Nine will be ready to help.
Jenny said in her entry that she remembered the whole thing perfectly from her dream. Weird, isn't it? I used to remember a lot of my dreams, but now they seem so vague when I wake up. And sowe found it. Does that mean we have tofind thesepeople? The Powers of Nine?
It will be so hard. I bet Amanda and Elena have already figured out that we need to look for them. At least we'll all have help from each other.
Well, good night. I'm tired and I don't want to think at the moment.
2-21-02
Today I talked to Jenny. She said good job for getting the prophecy, and now she really didn't know any more than us, and she said yes, we were the ones who were supposed to find these people. I supposed she meant to be lighthearted about the difficulties, because she wrote that all but The Expert of Fading would probably be easy to find, if they all had such strange powers. I'm liking her more now, now that she's not withholding any information, but they probably will not be easy to find, like she thinks.
I asked her why she'd showed Elena where the prophecy is if she wasn't supposed to reveal much information, and it seemed like she was really surprised that Elena had found it so easily. She said she hadn't helped Elena at all. Now it's really confusing. And then Jenny began to get cryptic again. She was writing things like,
She found it so easily? I wonder
And then she was just trailing off in her writing and not explaining herself. Kind of annoying again. I wish she would stop that.
3-27-02
Ah, March. The boring month of the year for me. No birthdays.
We've talked a bit about the Powers of Nine (I think I'll just call it the PN), and come to the conclusion that we're never going to find them. Hooray!
Actually, we've been trying to figure out how we can find the Seer, first of all. I mean, some Seers don't even know they're Seers, and we can't exactly put up an ad in the newspaper that says, "Everyone who is a powerful Seer and expects that they're one of the Powers of Nine come to Hogwarts to be inspected." No. I mean, nobody would even know who the PN (remember, we agreed on this abbreviation) were!
I guess we can just wait until the Seer shows him or herself. Or we could look for a spellI say that's what we do! Such good ideasI know why I'm in Ravenclaw. *puffs up proudly* Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.
Anyway, going off to do homework and then research where we can, hopefully, find a spell to track that puppyer, Seerdown!
Goodbye until my birthday (April 4th)unless something else happens
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A/N: Woo-hoo! I'm finally done! And I'm definitely well by now; it's been about two weeks since I got sick! And whew, is this chapter long! 25 KB or something...although bunny chan's, I think, are much longer...
PLEASE REVIEW, ALL OF YOU REGULAR READERS!!!!!!!!! (That is, if I've even got any!)
By the way, yay for bunny chan! Review The Marauding Five series by bunny chan, just cause it's great! ^_^
I think the next chapter will be about Kara's birthday or something.I'm bored, can't think of anything else to draw on the plot at the moment, so, yes, it'll probably be Kara's birthday. As you can see from this chapter, I love birthdays^_^ Mom's birthday, dad's birthday, Elena's birthday, life's just full of birthdays!
And also, my birthday's pretty close to Kara's, although not the same day, so I just have to write about hers to celebrate.^_^
Oooooooooo-kays, bye-bye until I post this!
~*Hermione2 (I'm just adding more and more to that signature)