A/n: wow, I felt like I'd never finish ch and lookie here, it's finished!!!!! I hope ya'll like it, it's 8 pages, I'm so proud ^_^
Disclaimer: Of course I don't own any of J.K.'s characters or places, I though you people would've known this by now…
The next morning the girls followed the same procedure, except it took them a lot less time to get to the Great Hall, and they met Joseph, Kevin, James, Michael, and George in the common room.
"Yesterday was fun, I wonder if today will be the same?" Megan wondered aloud.
"I don't know, we've got Potions today," Jennifer pointed out.
"What's wrong with Potions?" Kevin asked. This surprised the girls who had read the books.
"You mean you've never heard about Professor Snape?" Morgan asked. Kevin and James shook their heads.
"I have," Michael said.
"Me too," George replied.
"Well how do you two know, and they don't?" Jennifer asked
"One of you is muggle born, and the other doesn't have an older sibling," Morgan said continuing to eat her breakfast.
"I'm muggle born," Kevin said.
"I'm an only child," James said. The others looked confusedly at Morgan, well except for Jennifer that is. She had learned, from personal experience, to expect things of this sort.
"How'd you know that, Morgan," Lori asked. Morgan shrugged.
"I dunno," she said.
"What lesson do we have first?" Megan asked after a short silence.
"Ummm," Alicia looked down at her schedule, "Defense Against the Dark Arts."
"DADA! I wonder who the professor is this year," Michael said.
"Hopefully somebody good," Jennifer said. The rest agreed. After finishing breakfast they hurried off to find the DADA classroom.
"Are we there yet?" Lori asked in a very annoying voice.
"NO," Joseph said, exasperated.
"No need to yell, Joseph," Jennifer said absently. They had been wondering around the castle for quite some time. It was a good thing they had left breakfast thirty minutes before lessons started. Needless to say they had cautioned themselves.
"There it is," Kevin said, hurrying ahead. They all scurried into the classroom just as the bell rang.
After about five minutes of students filtering in, a woman of about thirty-four came into the room. She had long dark brown hair and dark blue eyes.
"Good morning class. The seats you are sitting in will be your until the end of the school year, understood?" she asked. Her voice was medium, being able to get louder or softer whenever the need arises.
They nodded.
"Wonderful. Okay, well my name is Professor Harrison, and I suppose I will learn your names in just a moment," she said as she walked to her desk and extracted a slip of parchment. "Ah yes. Alright, when I call your name please answer here. Bennett, George."
"Here."
"Benson, Bernard."
"Present."
"Brightt, Megan."
"President George W. Bush."
"From the States, eh? Anyway, Cherry, Morgan."
"Here."
"She's from Canada," Jennifer said.
"Well thank you for that piece of trivia, back to roll call, Childress Michael."
"Present."
"Freeman, Rebecca."
"Present."
"George, Elizabeth."
"Here."
"Harris, Rachel."
"Here."
"Herington, Kevin."
"Here."
"Jackson, Kyle."
"Here."
"James, Kyle James. What do you go by?"
"Present, and James. James James."
"Not Kyle James," said Alicia.
"Or Jesse James," said Megan.
"Or Frank James," said Morgan.
"Or Colin Farrell," Jennifer said sadly.
"Just James James," Lori said.
"Ok, anyway, Janet Johnson."
"Here."
"MacIntire, Alicia."
"Present."
"Ogleby, Fred."
"Here."
"O'Leary, Kelly."
"Present."
"Pierce, Mandy."
"Here."
"Thomas, Jennifer."
"Well, I think I'm here, but I could be wrong, I mean, I might only be half here, or maybe not here at all, or maybe I am here, but you're all just figments of my imagination."
"Well, at least your body is present."
"Yes, I suppose it is," Jennifer said looking down at herself.
"Tiller, Aaron."
"Here."
"White, Raven."
"Here."
"Yates, Lori."
"A present for everyone," Lori said happily.
"And Youngblood, Joseph."
"I am indeed here."
"Well, now that that is done, let's get on with the lesson, shall we?" the professor said rather cheerily. "Now, do any of you have any questions about this class?"
No one raised their hands; they all seemed to be in deep thought. Then Lori raised her hand.
"Yes, Lori, wasn't it?"
"Yes, um, what exactly are the Dark Arts we will be trying to defend ourselves against?" Lori asked confidently.
"Very good question, does anyone know the answer?" the professor asked looking around the room. A few Ravenclaws raised their hands. "Um, Kelly."
"Aren't their creatures we'll learn about, like werewolves and vampires?" the girl called Kelly asked. She had dark brown hair and brown eyes.
"Yes, but we won't get into those until 4th or 5th year. Anyone else," Professor Harrison said. The few Ravenclaws had lowered their hands, and now only one was raised. "Jennifer?"
"Well, I realize that Lord Voldemort has been killed, but he can't have been the only powerful dark wizard out there, I mean, couldn't there be someone else?" Jennifer asked. She had been pondering over this every since Cally and Chandler had told them that Lord Voldemort had been killed.
"That is just the question I have been waiting for. Yes, there is someone else, and I am required to tell you who that person is. However, because I'm just that type of tricky teacher, I'm assigning that as your first homework paper. Who is the new dark witch or wizard out there, and, if you can find it, why are they?" The lesson turned from that point to some of the magical beasts that the Ravenclaws had asked about.
Jennifer couldn't keep her mind on the lesson, nor could Alicia or Morgan. Their minds were busy else where.
*~!~*
"I like that professor," Lori said as they made their way towards the dungeons for Potions.
"Me too, but I know I'm going to hate this one," Megan agreed.
"I still don't get what's so terrible about Potions," James said.
"It's the professor. He hates Gryffindors, and all the other houses for that matter, except his own, Slytherin. Plus, Mitch says he's very greasy," Michael told James.
"It's true," Jennifer agreed.
"This must be it," Joseph said.
"Yep," said Alicia as they walked in and took their seats. A dead silence came over the filled classroom as Professor Snape stood from his desk and lectured them for about fifteen minutes.
"You will be assigned a partner. That person will be your partner in my class for the rest of the year. You had better get along. For the Gryffindors, Yates and Bennett, MacIntire and Herington, Brightt and James, Cherry and Youngblood, Thomas and Childress. For the Slytherins, Streneth and Pitman, Butler and Yin, Chapman and Starr, Davis and Snipes, and Able and Vladimier. Quickly find that person and get to work making the potion on page twelve." Then he turned around and sat down at his desk while the students scurried around trying to find their partners.
"Jennifer," Lori hissed across the aisle.
"What?" Jennifer hissed back not looking up from her work.
"I don't get this," Lori whispered.
"Oh please," Jennifer looked at her, "You haven't even started, besides that's what your partner is for."
Lori pouted, "So."
"Is there a problem?" Professor Snape asked. He was now standing right in front of them.
"Of course not," Lori said.
"This little conversation will cost you five points each," Snape said.
"Able and Vladimier were talking, why don't you take five points from them? I've heard you're very lenient with your house," Jennifer pointed out.
"Are you, like, scared or something?" Lori asked.
"Make that twenty points, and get back to work," the professor said, then went back to his desk.
Lori was quiet, for a while at least. As it got nearer to lunch, Lori and George finished up their potion, leaving Lori nothing to do. Not five minutes later there came a small explosion from their table.
"Miss Yates, what caused that explosion," Snape asked rather calmly.
"Oh, that, I'm not sure, it just happened," she answered.
"Ten points from Gryffindor," he said, and was about to go to his desk when Lori spoke up again.
"Excuse me, but it was your own fault," she said.
"How?" he asked turning around.
"You should have had something for me to do, everyone knows the saying 'Idle hands are a devil's workshop'," she explained.
"Five points from Gryffindor for talking back," the professor said, and he was about to go back to his desk again, when Jennifer asked,
"Excuse me, but is there a rule on paper that says 'Thou shalt not talk back to thy teachers'? Because if there isn't…" Jennifer said, but was interrupted by Lori.
"…then I shouldn't be charged with house points," Lori finished.
"Detention," he said. Then the bell rang, everyone hurried off to lunch.
"I can't believe you two got detention on your second day of school," Alicia said.
"I know, I wonder what we're going to have to do," Jennifer said. They didn't have to wait very long. Professor Snape must have been very bored or very mad, because their detention slips were sent to them at lunch.
"What does it say?" Morgan asked.
"They are such idiots," Lori said.
"It says that?" Megan asked.
"No, it says we have to polish the trophies in the Trophy Room, without magic, tonight at eight," Jennifer said.
"Why does that make them idiots?" Michael asked.
"Just think about it, Jennifer and Lori stuck in a room full of heavy, breakable trophies, with something to polish them with, basically without supervision. Do you know what could happen?" Joseph asked.
"Hey, you sent some very bad pictures over here," Lori said.
"EW!!! Lori, you are so perverted, now I have pictures," Jennifer said.
"Well I didn't mean it to be gross, I'm just saying, they'll probably end up with another detention, instead of learning a lesson or whatever," Joseph said.
"Now that would be cool," Lori said.
"Yeah, we could get an award for the most detentions received, in detention!" Jennifer said, ecstatic.
"Sure, Jenn," Alicia said unbelievingly. The boys then went of in their own little conversation, about sports of course, magical and non alike.
"Lori, why don't you try to pretend Professor Snape's not there if you hate him so much," Morgan suggested. They had just listened to about five minutes of why, in Lori's words, Snape was a total b-a-s-t-a-r-d.
"I just can't," Lori replied.
"It's his nose isn't it? I find it very distracting as well," Jennifer said thoughtfully. After a few seconds they all began to laugh.
"Jennifer, do you even know what you're saying sometimes?" Megan asked.
"Well, to tell the truth…nope, I don't," Jennifer answered.
"Come on, we've got to get back to class," Alicia said. They all stood and headed out of the Great Hall, none noticing that they had left one of their number behind with his own kind. It might have been the start of a series of very bad mistakes.
~*!*~
"Thank the Lord that is over!" Lori said as they left the dungeons and headed for History of Magic.
"Well, we've got another wonderful class coming up," Morgan said.
"What do you mean?" Alicia asked.
"We get a whole hour and a half of listenin' to Professor Binns," Jennifer explained.
"Yep, I would say that History of Magic is, to say the least, the most boring class mentioned in the Harry Potter series," said Megan.
"Oh joy," Lori said.
When they arrived at the classroom they hurried to find a seat in the back. They were the first ones to arrive. They had left Joseph at the door of the dungeons talking with the other Gryffindor boys.
"Oh this is cool! An empty classroom, not a teacher in sight, we could, like, jump out the window and nobody notice," Lori said.
"We could, but considering what almost happened to that boy yesterday, I'm not up to it," Jennifer said looking out the window. Then the room began to fill up with students.
Once everybody got there, Professor Binns entered the room through the chalkboard as usual. He then began his drawl that put just about everybody asleep.
About thirty minutes into the droning a piece of ordinary notebook paper slipped on Jennifer's desk, so she knew it had to be one of her friends who had given it to her.
Hey Jennifer, this class is sooo boring! We really need a project or something to work on during this period, I don't think I can take another hour of this~
Morgan
Jennifer looked at Morgan, who mouthed 'write back'. Megan noticed the paper and took it from her before she could. She read it quickly and then scribbled something on it.
Good idea, Morgan. There is one glitch: what project could we work on?
Megan
Jennifer reclaimed the paper and wrote:
Duh! We can start working on that thing for DADA! You know, who's the dark wizard and/or witch out there! Of course we couldn't start now, meet me in the library after dinner, and pass the note on~
Jennifer
Jennifer then handed it to Megan, who nodded, and handed it back. Then she gave it to Morgan, who, in turn, gave it to Alicia and nodded. Alicia also nodded and passed it on to Lori, who, again nodded in agreement. Then Lori put something else on the paper and passed it down the line again. After reading it Alicia wrote something, Morgan did the same, as did Jennifer and Megan. Finally Jennifer took the paper one last time and scribbled a short note.
It'll be perfect. We'll work on it in the library as well. We'd better keep it a secret tool~
Jennifer
Once again the note was passed down their little row. It received an affirmative from all of them. They spent the rest of the class writing some more notes, and were greatly relieved when the bell rang for dinner.
"Ok, did anybody actually here what that guy said?" George asked to nobody in particular. The Gryffindor first years were nearing the Great Hall in a large group, complaining about History of Magic.
"I think he said something about a troll war or something," Jennifer replied.
"Oh yeah, I think I heard something about that," Lori said. By now they had made it to the Great Hall and were seated at the Gryffindor table.
"What were ya'll doing back their anyway?" Joseph asked. The girls looked at each other and smiled.
"Oh, nothing really," Alicia said.
"Yes you were. Every time I looked over there you were laughing," said James as he filled his plate.
"We were just passing notes," Lori commented casually. The boy's looked unconvinced, but didn't say anything. The girls began to eat their food rather quickly.
"Where's the fire?" Michael asked.
"There's a fire?" Jennifer asked looking around.
"Let me rephrase that, why are you eating so fast?" he questioned.
"No time to talk," Morgan said as they finished and stood up.
"Yeah, we've go to go, see ya'll in the common room later," Jennifer said as they turned their backs and headed out of the hall.
"Hey, do any of you know where the library is?" Alicia asked.
"Darn, I knew we were missing something," Megan complained.
"I really don't feel like searching this place for a library," Lori said, "especially as Jennifer and I have a detention in an hour and a half."
"Don't worry, I know where it is," Jennifer said, unphased by their complaining.
"How?" Morgan asked her.
"Yeah, how?" Megan repeated Morgan's question.
"Last night I found it," Jennifer said casually.
"What were you doing out at night?" Alicia asked.
"I was trying to find the one-eyed witch, but stumbled across the library instead," Jennifer said patiently as she led them through the halls.
"Anything else you wanna tell us?" Lori asked.
"Yeah, I also found a way to find out who is that dark witch and/or wizard," Jennifer said. "Here we are." They stood in front of a pair of double doors. Jennifer opened them. Inside there were lots, and by lots I really do mean lots, of old, dusty books.
"Wow," Morgan said.
"Shh, Madam Pince will hear you, I tell you that woman has ears like an eagle," Jennifer said as she led them to a secluded corner.
"What is that?" Lori asked in a whisper. She pointed to what resembled a Muggle computer, but it looked a little deformed. The monitor stuck out in odd angles, the mouse was dangling off the table it sat on, and the keyboard, well there was no keyboard.
"Watch this," Jennifer said. She walked over to it, motioning her friends to sit down in the chairs around it, and pressed a small button at the bottom of the monitor.
"Ow, watch it," the computer said. The other four girls almost fell out of their seats.
"Well how else am I supposed to turn you on?" Jennifer asked it.
"Oh, it's you again," the computer didn't seem thrilled.
"Come on, you know you missed me, considering I'm the only person to use you in, what was it, fifteen years?" Jennifer teased putting her finger on her chin thoughtfully.
"Yes it was fifteen," the computer answered.
"Alright, well guess what, Mike, I brought some friends, and we're here to do some real work," Jennifer told the computer, whose name must have been 'Mike'.
"Really? Who are they?" 'Mike' seemed interested now. Jennifer motioned for all of them to approach the computer.
"I'm Morgan."
"Morgan, much better than Jennifer.."
"Whatever," Jennifer said.
"I'm Megan."
"Who else?" Mike asked.
"Lori."
"And Alicia."
"So what do you wanna know?" Mike asked.
"We wanna know who's the dark witch and/or wizard that is rising," Jennifer said.
"Let me check my files," Mike said. Some funny sounds came from the computer, and then they stopped. "What country?"
"I don't know, we just need to know who it is, not where," Jennifer said.
"Wait, didn't Cally say on the train that there was someone in America?" Alicia asked.
"Oh yeah," Morgan said.
"America then?" Mike asked.
"Yeah," Jennifer answered. A few minutes of strange sounds and then,
"Here it is, the steadily rising dark, young witch, yes it is a witch, is a woman who goes by Catasra. She lives in the U.S., but is always traveling so the Ministry of Magic cannot catch her," Mike told them.
"Well what's different between her and Voldemort?" Megan asked.
"Here's where I found it all at, you guys, ahem, girls, can look through it," Mike said. They all gathered around the computer and began to read about this Catasra woman. A little while later Alicia pointed out to Lori and Jennifer that they had five minutes to get to the trophy room for their detention.
"See ya," Jennifer said as they hurried out of the library. Once again they realized a very important minor detail.
"Where is the trophy room?"
They searched for what seemed like forever, but was really only five minutes, and showed up just in time.
"Alright, I think you know what to do," Snape said, "Clean all of them, and don't leave until you finish." Then he left. Jennifer looked at Lori.
"Oh the harm we could cause," she said devilishly.
"Could? More like will," Lori said. Jennifer ran over to the polish they were supposed to use.
"Hey Lori, I have a great idea…"
~*!*~
When Jennifer and Lori returned to the common room it was around 12:30. They were covered in polish.
"You guys smell like, ew, I don't even know," Alicia said. Jennifer and Lori just smiled.
"Trophy polish," Jennifer supplied for her.
"What did ya'll do?" Morgan asked getting a good look at her friends.
"Well, Jennifer had a brilliant idea," Lori said.
"Professor Snape said to clean the trophies, he didn't say anything about leaving the room clean," Jennifer explained.
"So we dumped all the polish on the floor and had a sliding contest, I won," Lori said.
"And we got the trophies polished in the process," Jennifer said.
"What state did you leave the trophy room in?" Megan asked.
"Oh, well, let's put it this way, I feel really sorry for the person who steps in their tomorrow morning."
A/n: ok, I hope you enjoyed it, and I would like to thank all my reviewers, b/c they're sooo great! And I would like to remind one of my friends *coughPleasantlyPerfectcough*
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