GRADUATION
Chapter 4.
Hey everyone! Well, I really hope that you liked chapter three and I hope that you really like chapter four. What else can I say, um, oh yeah, this chapter was so fun to write because I got to fantasize on what I wanted my prom to look like, well except for the squishy floor (which you will read about later.) So, read, enjoy, and pass on my story to everyone that you know. Thanks a ton!
@?? Princess Fiona @??
The next day (one day until school was over for ever) Harry ran down to the Owlery with a letter clutched tightly in his hand.
Dear Sirius, THIS IS SO GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I CAN'T WAIT UNTIL SUMMER VACATION!!!!!!! The train pulls in between 2:00 and 2:30. See you then!!!! Harry
*****(Could you tell that Harry was a little excited? He spent all of two minutes writing this letter to Sirius and he did an excellent job if you ask me.)*****
Harry skidded to a stop out side the Owlery. He slowly opened the door and walked in, looking for his snowy owl. Harry looked around the cool, dark Owlery for Hedwig. The only thing Harry could see were silhouettes of owls and some shining eyes.
"Hedwig." He whispered. "Where are you?" Dozens of owls turned their lamp-like eyes towards Harry. Feathers ruffled and tiny hoots could be heard.
"Hedwig, come here please." He said a little louder. Harry noticed a little movement near the top of the Owlery, like wings stretching out. A dark shape soared out and down towards him, a white owl flew down to his shoulder and held out her leg.
"Thanks girl. This is just going to Sirius, ok?" He stroked Hedwig as she blinked her big, yellow eyes at him and then took off.
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Harry stood in front of a full-length mirror, looking at himself. "Boy," he thought. "I look pretty good. Very good at that." The seventh years were having a graduation like ceremony to receive their Wizarding Diplomas and to have pictures taken of the whole seventh year class and the different houses. Harry kept admiring himself in the mirror, telling himself over and over how hansom he looked in his new, wine red dress robe.
"Hey Harry! Nice robe." Said Ron stepping into the dormitory. "What does yours look like?"
"Oh." Ron said blushing. He walked over to his trunk and pulled out what looked remarkably like the dress robe that Ron wore to the Yule Ball in their fourth year.
"That reminds me." Harry said, digging around in his trunk for something. Ron watched as his best friend searched frantically around for something.
"Ah, ha!" Harry said standing up and holding on to a white box. "I have a little present for you. You might just want to use it tonight." Harry was smiling at Ron as he sat down to open it. Ron got the box opened and was pulling out the white paper that lined the box and looked up at Harry, who was beaming.
"This better not be a trick Harry Potter."
"I would never." Said Harry, looking very offended, but still smiling. Ron finally pulled out a white dress robe. He stared at it for a moment, not knowing what it was, or what he was supposed to do with it.
"So, what do you think?" Asked Harry.
"Um, its very nice Harry."
"You dolt, read the tag."
BEWITCHING DRESS ROBES Put a "spell" on the party that you are going to by putting a spell on your new dress robe. Guaranteed to look stunning. Your perfect color will "magically" be transferred from your wand to the robe.
DIRECTIONS:
Hold wand over dress robe and say the following spell: "I have a party and the fun is coming,
Dress robe you make me look stunning."
As soon as Ron finished saying the word "stunning", a silver beam shot out of Ron's wand.
It danced in front of Ron's face for a second before moving down to the dress robe. The silver beam twirled and twisted around and through the robe. As the beam moved, the robe started to change colors. Red, yellow, brown, even rainbow. All of the colors were on there at once when they started to combine and mix. Ron looked on in horror as his robe turned avocado green, the black with white specks. The colors spun around on the robe, making it look like a weird tie-die shirt. They spun faster and faster until they stopped. Harry nudged Ron to tell him that it was ok to look. Ron opened his eyes to find that his robe had turned a pretty color that looked like an aqua color but with more green. Ron finally decided that it looked like an emerald green.
Ron grinned and put the robe on. Harry had to admit that the robe looked very good on Ron and the color complimented him very much. But Harry would not tell himself that Ron looked "stunning" in it.
Ron and Harry walked down to the common room and met up with Lavender (in a pinkish-purpley color robe) and Hermione (in a pastel yellow robe).
"Wow." Harry breathed. "You look very pretty."
"Thank you." She blushed and hid her face.
"Lavender, you look smashing." Ron said.
"Thank you Ron." Lavender said blushing. "And you look stunning in that green color." Ron's face turned the color of Harry's robe at Lavender's comment. Professor McGonagall stepped into the common room.
"Seventh years, are you ready to go?" Everyone looks very nice this evening I have to say. All right, if you will follow me to the Great Hall." Everyone followed her through the castle to the Great Hall.
When they got to the entrance of the Great Hall, McGonagall made them stop.
"You will sit at your house table. After you receive your diploma, photographs will be taken, a dance will be held and you will get a chance to, well, mingle with all of the other students.
She led them into the Great Hall, but it didn't look like it normally did. There were none of the big, long house tables set up. Just four small circle tables in the colors of their respective house. Harry and all of the other Gryffindors walked towards their table. Harry was surprised to find that the floor was not hard stone, but it was off white and soft, like cork. The walls were like this too, only softer and puffier. Harry looked above him and didn't see the sky, as it would be at 8:00 at night. Instead he saw a blue sky with the sun peeking out from one corner. And instead of candles, there were thousands of tiny butterflies, in all sorts of colors that were fluttering around and glowing a little. The Gryffindors were sitting at the table and talking about the decorations.
"Bill said that they has a medieval theme for their graduation party. For dinner, they had a pig that roasted in a pit in the middle of the floor." Lavender looked disgusted when Ron said that. He chuckled and prayed that they would not have that.
Dumbledore came in and stood where the teacher's table would normally be. Everyone quitted down.
"This celebration is for all of you. Each of you has gone through seven, intense, yet fun, years at Hogwarts. We are celebrating your graduation from Hogwarts and your entering into the adult Wizarding world. You may or may have not guessed the theme of your graduation party. This year it is "Fantasy in the Clouds." I thought it up while I was reading a letter from the Minister of Magic. I was wondering what it would be like to live on a cloud. Ah, enough of that. With the help of the other teachers you will receive you diplomas on passing the "Big Five", the five most important classes that you have to take. They are, Potions, Charms, Transfiguration, History of Magic, and Magical Plants. I will call your name and you will step foreword to receive your certificates of completion from each to the teachers and I will give you your diploma." The teachers stepped up to where Dumbledore stood. Dumbledore unrolled a piece of parchment.
"Abbott, Hannah." A girl with long, blond hair walked up to the teachers, shook hands with Snape, McGonagall and all of the other teachers. Dumbledore smiled as he handed her a picture frame. Hannah shook hands with him and turned and showed all of the other Hufflepuffs her diploma. Dumbledore read more names; Bones, Susan: Boot, Terry: Brocklehurst, Mandy: Bulstrode, Millicent (who actually gave Snape a hug and you could hear her say "thank you for being the best house teacher ever". Ron started to gag.) Dumbledore went on and on until he called.
"Hermione Granger." Hermione jumped up, almost sprinted up to where the teachers were, ripped her certificate from Snape, shook hands with him for one millisecond, ran over to McGonagall, hugged her, glared as she passed Trelawney, ran to Dumbledore, took her diploma with shaking hands (Ron and Harry were embarrassed at that moment to know her.) Hermione started to cry, gave Dumbledore a bone crunching hug (as the Slytherins sneered) and ran back down to the Gryffindor table only to fall into Harry and Ron, hugging them tightly, sobbing. All three of them just sat there, well, Harry and Ron sat there while Hermione was half lying down, half sitting on both of them, drenching their robes.
"Um, Hermione, do you mind? You are getting my robe wet and I really like this one and I want to keep it." Ron said poking her shoulder. She sat up, blushing and rubbing her eyes.
"Oh!" she exclaimed. "Oh, I'm awfully sorry. Yes, very sorry." She mumbled as she patted Ron's leg and stared off into space. Ron glanced at Harry with a look that said, "She's mental and you know it."
Dumbledore kept reading names off the list. Harry sat there in a dazed state, clapping with the rest of the people when a name was read.
"Potter, Harry." Harry was jerked out of his dazed state when Dumbledore read his name. Harry walked up to Snape, who (briefly) shook hands with him and (reluctantly) handed him his certificate. Harry moved on and when he got to Professor McGonagall, she handed him his diploma, shook hands with him, and to his horror, hugged him. Harry wrestled him self away from McGonagall and walked over to Dumbledore. Dumbledore's eyes twinkled as Harry shook hands with him and received his diploma. As Harry walked back, he almost started to cry, but he didn't. He walked back to Ron and Hermione in a daze. Hermione kissed him on the cheek and Ron patted him on the shoulder.
"Weasley, Ronald." Dumbledore called off. Ron stood up and got his diploma and walked back to the table. Lavender kissed him (Ron blushed), Hermione kissed him on the cheek and Harry shook his hand.
After everyone had received his or her certificates and diplomas, Dumbledore stepped foreword and cleared his throat.
"All of you are now official witches and wizards. All of the staff of Hogwarts and I want to wish you a safe, happy, and successful future in whatever you decide to do. However, this is a sad day for you. After today, all of you will be thrust into the adult world, leaving behind what you have lived with for the past seven years. I have one last thing to say to you all that I would like you to think about in the morning, when you are all saying good-bye to Hogwarts, according to the immortal words of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet: A glooming peace this morning with it brings,
The sun for sorrow will not show its head.
Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things."
Hey everyone! Well, I really hope that you liked chapter three and I hope that you really like chapter four. What else can I say, um, oh yeah, this chapter was so fun to write because I got to fantasize on what I wanted my prom to look like, well except for the squishy floor (which you will read about later.) So, read, enjoy, and pass on my story to everyone that you know. Thanks a ton!
@?? Princess Fiona @??
The next day (one day until school was over for ever) Harry ran down to the Owlery with a letter clutched tightly in his hand.
Dear Sirius, THIS IS SO GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I CAN'T WAIT UNTIL SUMMER VACATION!!!!!!! The train pulls in between 2:00 and 2:30. See you then!!!! Harry
*****(Could you tell that Harry was a little excited? He spent all of two minutes writing this letter to Sirius and he did an excellent job if you ask me.)*****
Harry skidded to a stop out side the Owlery. He slowly opened the door and walked in, looking for his snowy owl. Harry looked around the cool, dark Owlery for Hedwig. The only thing Harry could see were silhouettes of owls and some shining eyes.
"Hedwig." He whispered. "Where are you?" Dozens of owls turned their lamp-like eyes towards Harry. Feathers ruffled and tiny hoots could be heard.
"Hedwig, come here please." He said a little louder. Harry noticed a little movement near the top of the Owlery, like wings stretching out. A dark shape soared out and down towards him, a white owl flew down to his shoulder and held out her leg.
"Thanks girl. This is just going to Sirius, ok?" He stroked Hedwig as she blinked her big, yellow eyes at him and then took off.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Harry stood in front of a full-length mirror, looking at himself. "Boy," he thought. "I look pretty good. Very good at that." The seventh years were having a graduation like ceremony to receive their Wizarding Diplomas and to have pictures taken of the whole seventh year class and the different houses. Harry kept admiring himself in the mirror, telling himself over and over how hansom he looked in his new, wine red dress robe.
"Hey Harry! Nice robe." Said Ron stepping into the dormitory. "What does yours look like?"
"Oh." Ron said blushing. He walked over to his trunk and pulled out what looked remarkably like the dress robe that Ron wore to the Yule Ball in their fourth year.
"That reminds me." Harry said, digging around in his trunk for something. Ron watched as his best friend searched frantically around for something.
"Ah, ha!" Harry said standing up and holding on to a white box. "I have a little present for you. You might just want to use it tonight." Harry was smiling at Ron as he sat down to open it. Ron got the box opened and was pulling out the white paper that lined the box and looked up at Harry, who was beaming.
"This better not be a trick Harry Potter."
"I would never." Said Harry, looking very offended, but still smiling. Ron finally pulled out a white dress robe. He stared at it for a moment, not knowing what it was, or what he was supposed to do with it.
"So, what do you think?" Asked Harry.
"Um, its very nice Harry."
"You dolt, read the tag."
BEWITCHING DRESS ROBES Put a "spell" on the party that you are going to by putting a spell on your new dress robe. Guaranteed to look stunning. Your perfect color will "magically" be transferred from your wand to the robe.
DIRECTIONS:
Hold wand over dress robe and say the following spell: "I have a party and the fun is coming,
Dress robe you make me look stunning."
As soon as Ron finished saying the word "stunning", a silver beam shot out of Ron's wand.
It danced in front of Ron's face for a second before moving down to the dress robe. The silver beam twirled and twisted around and through the robe. As the beam moved, the robe started to change colors. Red, yellow, brown, even rainbow. All of the colors were on there at once when they started to combine and mix. Ron looked on in horror as his robe turned avocado green, the black with white specks. The colors spun around on the robe, making it look like a weird tie-die shirt. They spun faster and faster until they stopped. Harry nudged Ron to tell him that it was ok to look. Ron opened his eyes to find that his robe had turned a pretty color that looked like an aqua color but with more green. Ron finally decided that it looked like an emerald green.
Ron grinned and put the robe on. Harry had to admit that the robe looked very good on Ron and the color complimented him very much. But Harry would not tell himself that Ron looked "stunning" in it.
Ron and Harry walked down to the common room and met up with Lavender (in a pinkish-purpley color robe) and Hermione (in a pastel yellow robe).
"Wow." Harry breathed. "You look very pretty."
"Thank you." She blushed and hid her face.
"Lavender, you look smashing." Ron said.
"Thank you Ron." Lavender said blushing. "And you look stunning in that green color." Ron's face turned the color of Harry's robe at Lavender's comment. Professor McGonagall stepped into the common room.
"Seventh years, are you ready to go?" Everyone looks very nice this evening I have to say. All right, if you will follow me to the Great Hall." Everyone followed her through the castle to the Great Hall.
When they got to the entrance of the Great Hall, McGonagall made them stop.
"You will sit at your house table. After you receive your diploma, photographs will be taken, a dance will be held and you will get a chance to, well, mingle with all of the other students.
She led them into the Great Hall, but it didn't look like it normally did. There were none of the big, long house tables set up. Just four small circle tables in the colors of their respective house. Harry and all of the other Gryffindors walked towards their table. Harry was surprised to find that the floor was not hard stone, but it was off white and soft, like cork. The walls were like this too, only softer and puffier. Harry looked above him and didn't see the sky, as it would be at 8:00 at night. Instead he saw a blue sky with the sun peeking out from one corner. And instead of candles, there were thousands of tiny butterflies, in all sorts of colors that were fluttering around and glowing a little. The Gryffindors were sitting at the table and talking about the decorations.
"Bill said that they has a medieval theme for their graduation party. For dinner, they had a pig that roasted in a pit in the middle of the floor." Lavender looked disgusted when Ron said that. He chuckled and prayed that they would not have that.
Dumbledore came in and stood where the teacher's table would normally be. Everyone quitted down.
"This celebration is for all of you. Each of you has gone through seven, intense, yet fun, years at Hogwarts. We are celebrating your graduation from Hogwarts and your entering into the adult Wizarding world. You may or may have not guessed the theme of your graduation party. This year it is "Fantasy in the Clouds." I thought it up while I was reading a letter from the Minister of Magic. I was wondering what it would be like to live on a cloud. Ah, enough of that. With the help of the other teachers you will receive you diplomas on passing the "Big Five", the five most important classes that you have to take. They are, Potions, Charms, Transfiguration, History of Magic, and Magical Plants. I will call your name and you will step foreword to receive your certificates of completion from each to the teachers and I will give you your diploma." The teachers stepped up to where Dumbledore stood. Dumbledore unrolled a piece of parchment.
"Abbott, Hannah." A girl with long, blond hair walked up to the teachers, shook hands with Snape, McGonagall and all of the other teachers. Dumbledore smiled as he handed her a picture frame. Hannah shook hands with him and turned and showed all of the other Hufflepuffs her diploma. Dumbledore read more names; Bones, Susan: Boot, Terry: Brocklehurst, Mandy: Bulstrode, Millicent (who actually gave Snape a hug and you could hear her say "thank you for being the best house teacher ever". Ron started to gag.) Dumbledore went on and on until he called.
"Hermione Granger." Hermione jumped up, almost sprinted up to where the teachers were, ripped her certificate from Snape, shook hands with him for one millisecond, ran over to McGonagall, hugged her, glared as she passed Trelawney, ran to Dumbledore, took her diploma with shaking hands (Ron and Harry were embarrassed at that moment to know her.) Hermione started to cry, gave Dumbledore a bone crunching hug (as the Slytherins sneered) and ran back down to the Gryffindor table only to fall into Harry and Ron, hugging them tightly, sobbing. All three of them just sat there, well, Harry and Ron sat there while Hermione was half lying down, half sitting on both of them, drenching their robes.
"Um, Hermione, do you mind? You are getting my robe wet and I really like this one and I want to keep it." Ron said poking her shoulder. She sat up, blushing and rubbing her eyes.
"Oh!" she exclaimed. "Oh, I'm awfully sorry. Yes, very sorry." She mumbled as she patted Ron's leg and stared off into space. Ron glanced at Harry with a look that said, "She's mental and you know it."
Dumbledore kept reading names off the list. Harry sat there in a dazed state, clapping with the rest of the people when a name was read.
"Potter, Harry." Harry was jerked out of his dazed state when Dumbledore read his name. Harry walked up to Snape, who (briefly) shook hands with him and (reluctantly) handed him his certificate. Harry moved on and when he got to Professor McGonagall, she handed him his diploma, shook hands with him, and to his horror, hugged him. Harry wrestled him self away from McGonagall and walked over to Dumbledore. Dumbledore's eyes twinkled as Harry shook hands with him and received his diploma. As Harry walked back, he almost started to cry, but he didn't. He walked back to Ron and Hermione in a daze. Hermione kissed him on the cheek and Ron patted him on the shoulder.
"Weasley, Ronald." Dumbledore called off. Ron stood up and got his diploma and walked back to the table. Lavender kissed him (Ron blushed), Hermione kissed him on the cheek and Harry shook his hand.
After everyone had received his or her certificates and diplomas, Dumbledore stepped foreword and cleared his throat.
"All of you are now official witches and wizards. All of the staff of Hogwarts and I want to wish you a safe, happy, and successful future in whatever you decide to do. However, this is a sad day for you. After today, all of you will be thrust into the adult world, leaving behind what you have lived with for the past seven years. I have one last thing to say to you all that I would like you to think about in the morning, when you are all saying good-bye to Hogwarts, according to the immortal words of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet: A glooming peace this morning with it brings,
The sun for sorrow will not show its head.
Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things."