Mission #2
Create a New Nation
"Our next task is to create a new nation all together?" Aragog said, pacing back and forth as he and the Ravenclaw Prefect sat in the Ravenclaw common room. You know what? YOU get to make up what that looks like!!
"Is that even possible?" the Ravenclaw Prefect asked.
"We have to MAKE it possible!" Aragog declared. "Since our last task was a failure, this was HAS to work out!"
"All right then!" agreed the Ravenclaw Prefect. "Well…what should our nation be called?"
Before Aragog could answer, two first years came running down the stairs.
"PREFECT!!!" they both yelled. "WE'RE SO LOST!!!!"
"What are you trying to find?" asked the Ravenclaw Prefect.
"The common room." They both said at the same time.
The Ravenclaw Prefect chuckled warmly. "Why, you're here right now!" he said, gesturing around to the room that you have made up. It could look like a welcoming homely place like the Gryffindor common room, or it could be dank and look much like a dungeon like the Slytherin common room. Maybe it could even be somewhere in the middle or PAST those two extremes! For all we know, the Ravenclaws don't even HAVE a common room!! They just go outside and all ban together and stay warm with each other's body heat!! ARGH!!!
"Thanks prefect!" said both the first years at the very same time again.
"No problem!" said the Ravenclaw Prefect as the two first years went to the OTHER side of the common room and did first year stuff.
"So…" said Aragog. "What should our nation be called?"
"How about…This is a Nation!" suggested the Ravenclaw Prefect.
"No." Aragog said, shaking his head. "…WE are a Nation!"
"How about YOU Are a Nation!" the Ravenclaw Prefect said excidedly.
"Too long." Said Aragog. "You're A Nation!"
"ALL RIGHT!!" cheered the Ravenclaw Prefect.
"We should design what it looks like." Said the Ravenclaw Prefect as he pulled out a piece of construction paper and some crayons and some sealing wax.
"We could just make it here in the common room." Said Aragog.
"Yeah!" said the Ravenclaw Prefect. "I'll make a sign."
"And I'll recruit members!" Aragog decided. "And when you're done with your sign, come help me."
"I'm done." Said the Ravenclaw Prefect as he showed Aragog his sign.
"Very nice." Said Aragog, nodding.
"Should this nation only be secluded to Ravenclaws?"
"No. In fact, I don't think any of the Ravenclaws should be able to join because none of them have names."
"Don't think you're all high and mighty just because you have a name and have a bigger significance to everything! Even though you're 'big significance' isn't really that big or significant."
"Yeah well…" started Aragog, trying to think of a comeback. "Wait, we should be getting along! Let's go recruit some members!!"
"Should we start with Gryffindor?" said the Ravenclaw Prefect.
"Okay." Said Aragog as the two of them walked around the corner to the fat lady picture and knocked on it. Percy came to the door with his sleepy hair.
"Are you two back again?" he said with a sigh.
"Yes!" said the Ravenclaw Prefect. "Now let us in!"
"What's the password?" asked Percy even though he knew very well that they didn't know the secret password that only the Gryffindors know.
"We don't need a password!" said Aragog. "We're part of the 'You're A Nation' Nation!"
Percy blinked, paused and thought that maybe he had heard wrong considering he just woke up. "The bathroom is down the hall." He said finally.
"We don't need to use the bathroom!" yelled Aragog. "We just want to recruit Gryffindors for You're a Nation!"
"I'm sure they can do that on their own." Said Percy.
The Ravenclaw Prefect and Aragog looked at each other and then back at Percy. "Let us in!!" they both yelled.
"What's the password?" Percy asked.
"Well…considering what the Ravenclaw password is…the Gryffindor password must be…PERCY RULES!!" the Ravenclaw Prefect bellowed. Percy gasped and stumbled backwards.
"How did you know?!" he demanded.
"It seriously is 'Percy Rules'?" Aragog said. "That is so sad."
"Professor Dumbledore let ME make up the password." Percy said, brushing himself off. "So what?"
"Well you have to let us in now." Said the Ravenclaw Prefect.
"Never!" said Percy. "You're not a Gryffindor!!"
Aragog and the Ravenclaw Prefect telepathically planned an evil scheme. They easily beat Percy up and left his steaming heap outside the door and then hurried into the Gryffindor common room.
"Who wants to be part of You're A Nation?!" the Ravenclaw Prefect yelled. It was then silent in the Gryffindor common room except for Hermione reading an excerpt from a book from the Restricted Section she took out for light reading to Harry and Ron. Not only was seeing the Ravenclaw Prefect in the common room kind of weird but he had also just asked a really weird question.
"We do!" said Fred and George at the same time since they're troublesome troublemakers.
"What are you doing in our common room?!" demanded Seamus, which is actually pronounced Shaymus.
"How dare you?!" yelled the Ravenclaw Prefect. "I am a PREFECT!!!"
"Oh." Said Seamus. "Then can I be in You're a Nation too?"
"OF COURSE!!!" said Aragog. "Are you taking these names down?"
"Yup!" said the Ravenclaw Prefect. Pretty soon, EVERYONE wanted to join You're a Nation!! Except for Harry, Ron and Hermione, of course, since they had long since gone off to the Forbidden Forest for one reason or another!!
"Wow, our nation is so successful already and we have only been to one house so far!" said the Ravenclaw Prefect as he looked up and down the list of the names he had. They stepped over Percy's heap on the ground and left the Gryffindor common room.
"Now let's go to Slytherin." Said Aragog. "Since it's pointless to go to Hufflepuff because that place doesn't really exist either and we're not including Ravenclaw."
"OKAY!!!" cheered the Ravenclaw Prefect as the two of them ran as fast as they could to the Slytherin place. When they knocked, who would open the door but MALFOY!! SENIOR!!!
"And you are?" said Malfoy the First.
"I'm the Ravenclaw Prefect and this is Aragog." Said the Ravenclaw Prefect.
"Charmed." Said Malfoy the First. "And what business do you have here, Ravenclaw Prefect-sama and Aragog-sama?"
"I don't know, I was going to kind of ask you the same thing." Said the Ravenclaw Prefect, trying to ignore the suffixes. "Why ARE you here, Mr. Malfoy?"
"YOU WILL REFER TO ME AS MALFOY-SAMA!!" screamed Malfoy the First as he pulled off the top of his cane and held his wand up to the Ravenclaw Prefect as if he were threatening to do something.
"Um…okay." Said the Ravenclaw Prefect as he easily swatted 'Malfoy-Sama's hand away. "We want to come in and recruit members for our nation. We have to make one and we're wondering if anyone in Slytherin wants to be in it since they have names too."
"Is…Potter-sama in this nation?" Malfoy-sama asked.
"Um…I don't think so." Aragog replied.
"Very well." Said Malfoy-sama. "Malfoy-kun will join your nation."
"Not to be rude or anything but why are you adding suffixes at the end of everyone's name?" Aragog asked.
"SILENCE!!!" screamed Malfoy-sama as he threatened Aragog with his cane wand as well. Aragog just batted Malfoy-sama as well. "You have gotten what you have come for now be gone!!!" And then Malfoy-sama slammed the door shut.
"Okay…that was really really weird." Said the Ravenclaw Prefect as he added Malfoy JUNIOR'S name to the list of the people in You're A Nation.
"So how many people do we have?" asked Aragog, looking over the Ravenclaw Prefect's shoulder.
"We have everyone in Gryffindor except Percy, Harry, Ron and Hermione," the Ravenclaw Prefect replied. "And Malfoy."
"I think that's enough for now." Said Aragog. "We should start improving our nation by getting permission from a teacher."
"Okay!" said the Ravenclaw Prefect. "I wish I remembered who the head of the Ravenclaw house was so we could ask that particular teacher. But we might as well just go and ask the head of Gryffindor since we have all the Gryffindors except for four. But we can't really do that either since I don't remember how to spell her name and it would be pointless to ask the professor of Hufflepuff because not only do I not know who he/she is but we don't have any Hufflepuffs! So…let's just go ask Professor Snape."
"Sounds like a plan!" said Aragog. The Ravenclaw Prefect perched atop of Aragog and then Aragog galloped off to Professor Snape's office. Aragog knocked on the door and Snape opened the door. He then looked up at Aragog and the Ravenclaw Prefect.
"Riding a giant spider through the hallway," said Professor Snape, shaking his head. "Ten points from Ravenclaw."
"What?!" yelled the Ravenclaw Prefect. "You're supposed to hate Gryffindor for no reason, not Ravenclaw!"
"Ten more points!" Snape snapped. HAW!!
"Fine…" said the Ravenclaw Prefect since he knew very well that it's not like it was going to be RAVENCLAW who would win the House Cup. "We just came to ask your permission to start our nation. The You're A Nation Nation."
"Ten more points from Ravenclaw." Snape said with a frown.
"WHY?!" yelled Aragog AND the Ravenclaw Prefect. Yes, Aragog was starting to get a little offended too since he might as well be in Ravenclaw since he ALWAYS hangs out there.
"I will have no such nation with a horrible name befouling the name of Hogwarts." Said Snape and then he slammed the door and swooped about his room knavishly.
"Well…I guess we can't continue our nation." Said Aragog with a sigh.
"We failed again." Said the Ravenclaw Prefect sadly.
What will Aragog and the Ravenclaw Prefect's next task be? It's all up to YOU!! THE READERS!!! All you have to do is review with an idea of their next task, or simply send an e-mail to us, and if we approve of it then Aragog and the Ravenclaw Prefect will do it!