A/N: I just read a Wrinkle in Time yesterday. It didn't take me too long to read it... it's kinda short, really. I want to read the second book, but I gotta find it. Is it just me or did Calvin move really quickly with Meg.... quicker than any 14 yr old boy I ever knew.... :p
My grandmother is watching HP:SS downstairs... I didn't feel like watching a whole lot so here I am.... I wonder when the soundtrack for CoS comes out.... I can't wait! GAH! I want the third book to Angelic Layer as well... and Chobits.... and half a dozen other things as well... grrrrrrr....
Chapter Three
Harry walked down the steps of the Weasley house and into the kitchen for breakfast. He yawned loudly and rubbed the sleep from his eyes. He sat down and smiled blearily at Ginny. She giggled at him. "You look like a child with your hair like that..."
"It just grows that way...." Harry smirked at her.
Astra walked in and sat down in the manner she generally had in the morning. Her hair was even more spider web like than it usually was. It stuck out in odd angles, like Harry's, and floated as she walked. "It'll be like this for about an hour and then.... blegh...."
Hermione giggled and Ron smiled. "You two look like you had a rough night..." Ron said as he helped himself to some eggs that Mrs. Weasley put on their plates. "Thanks, mum."
"You're welcome, Ron...."
"I generally look like this in the morning Ron...." Astra said flatly.
"I had a weird dream...." Harry said as he yawned again.
"I have those all the time... I never have good dreams or nightmares... just bizarre and unreal...." Astra said nonchalantly.
"This one I can't remember very well.... I think it had something about burning houses in it...." Harry said as he ate his eggs. "And someone asking me, do you know who you are....."
Avalon came in, her long black hair cascaded down her back in waves. She stared at Harry with her black eyes and smiled. She sat down and smiled at Mrs. Weasley. "You are just so sweet, dearie!" Mrs. Weasley said as she gave Avalon a hug.
Ron stared at his mother incredulously. "What did she do that was so sweet?"
"She smiled at me in the morning... if you and your brothers did that on a normal basis, I wouldn't be like this..." she grinned.
That afternoon, Harry had a nice time playing a simplified form of Quidditch. Basically, they just tossed apples to each other. Astra was one of the worst tossers. She tossed, but ended up throwing too hard and at the wrong part of the person. Ron got thrown off his broom three times trying to avoid being beheaded by Astra.
"Sorry!" Astra called as she threw an apple at Ron again and it nearly hit his head. "Grrrr... this is why I'm a fricken beater!" she growled. Harry laughed as he caught the apple she had thrown.
That evening, Mrs. Weasley came out with a chocolate birthday cake for Harry. "Make a wish, Harry!" she beamed at him.
Harry smiled at Ginny and thought about wanting her by him always. It was a warm thought. He sighed and blew out his candles. Everyone clamored over with their presents for him. Hermione gave him a book on dark spells and defenses against them. On gave him a chess set. Astra and Nevaeh gave him a bottle of some kind of potion they had thought up.
It was Ginny's present that caught his eyes. She blushed as she gave it to him. It was a small box. He opened it and found an interesting gold ring inside. It had two lions holding a blood red gem stone. "For luck..." she muttered and kissed him.
That night, Harry slept fitfully. He couldn't find a comfortable position to be in. He sat up in bed and put on his glasses. He saw the ring glinting in the moonlight. He reached over and put it on.
He walked down the stairs into the living room and found it was already being occupied. Astra sat watching the window. Her long whitish hair flowed around her like spider silk.
"Hello, Astra.... couldn't sleep?" He said while yawning. She turned her gaze towards him.
She smiled up at him. "Yeah... I was thinking about my future...." she trailed off. "I was thinking.... about what I was going to do after we graduate...." she said.
"Graduate?"
"Yeah.... in America... we generally have this grand cerimony where we get to... you know what.... never mind...." Astra said finally. Harry didn't press it further.
"You know... I was wondering that myself...." He sat down next to her. "I wonder what's going to happen.... I feel... as though someone or something is warning me about something...." He said. "Nevermind... It's probably before school pre-head boy jitters...."
"You know... I still can't figure how you got to be Head Boy in the first place... isn't that supposed to be like this regal position?" Astra said with a smirk.
"And I'm not regal enough for it? The great and grand Harry Potter isn't Kingly enough to be Head Boy?!" Harry said as he shoved her.
"Oh hush! Just because you've got a cute pair of eyes and a cool scar, doesn't mean that you can rule the world!" Astra said. She yawned suddenly. "It looks like I'm starting to get sleepy now... I'm heading up..." She leaned over and gave him a kiss on the forehead, right on his scar. "Good night...." She walked up the stairs and disappeared.
The next couple of weeks went fine. Harry was able to get sleep, but he could never really remember what had happened in them. On the day that Mr. and Mrs. Weasley were taking them to Diagon Alley, Harry received his school supplies list. The list came with another envelope.
Hermione squealed in glee as she put on her new badge. "I've been made Head Girl!" she giggled.
Harry opened his other envelope and pulled out a badge. "It looks as though you've been made Head Boy, Harry...." Ron said while finishing his pancakes.
"Yes... it does doesn't it...." Harry said thoughtfully as he shined up the badge some more. "I don't feel like I should wear this though..."
"Oh, go on, Harry.... You're Head Boy! You can do all sorts of things now!" Ginny said with a smile. She reached up and gave him a kiss on his cheek.
"As if he couldn't before...." Astra muttered. "So... when are we going to Diagon Alley, eh?"
"After Breakfast, dearie..." Mrs. Weasley said. "I love the pictures you drew me, Astra...." she smiled at her.
"Yer welcome, Mrs. Weasley."
"Anymore sweetness and I'll have to hose it down....." Draco muttered as he walked into the kitchen. He sat down next to Astra and wrapped a arm around her waist possessively.
"And we all know that you have problems being around nice people..." Astra said impatiently. Draco drew her closer to him and smiled down at her. Her cheeks twinged pink and she went back to eating.
"I find it very interesting to have Lucius Malfoy's son staying here with us..." said Mr. Weasley mildly. "How has your time away from home been?"
Draco looked like he was debating whether to ignore Mr. Weasley, say something rude to Mr. Weasley, or be a good boy and keep his mouth shut. He seemed to settle on the latter. Mr. Weasley smiled at Astra and winked. "You have him trained already...."
"Doesn't take too long, really... once he learned that I don't tolerate his attitude towards you, he learned to just keep his trap shut..." Astra said mildly.
"Astra.... do you have to keep talking about me like I'm some sort of pet...?" Draco said through gritted teeth.
"Draco.... you ARE a pet....! Now be a good boy and you'll get a treat later...." Astra said quickly. She blushed when Nevaeh started grinning at her and waggled her eyebrows.
When they finished breakfast, everyone got dressed and came downstairs to the living room. "We'll need to get some more floo powder, Arthur." Mrs. Weasley said as she took out a handful of sparkling dust.
She threw the floo powder in and the fire grew and changed colors. "Arthur.... you first...." Mr. Weasley walked into the fire and disappeared.
They each walked in until it was Harry's turn. He hated traveling though the floo network. He always ended up swallowing a mouthful of ash when he did it. He was surprised he had not gotten sick from it.
He walked into the fire and shouted. "Diagon Alley!" He got a mouthful of ash as he shouted. He choked as he fell through the fire. He twisted and spun, holding his arms in close to his body.
He started feeling sick and fell out onto hard floor. He opened his eyes and found everything to be slightly blurry. His glasses had fallen off. He found them and picked them up. He glanced around where he had landed. He wasn't with the others.
He was in a familiar store with walls full of small boxes. He stood up and tried to brush his clothes off. He got most of the soot off of him, but most of it stayed on him. He sighed in defeat.
"Hello?"
Harry was startled by the voice. He was even more startled by someone on a moving ladder show up in his view. Mr. Ollivander smiled down at Harry. "Interesting to see you again, Harry...."
Harry gulped and smiled up at Mr. Ollivander. "Can you tell me if you saw the Weasleys pass by here yet?"
"No.... I have not..." Mr. Ollivander stepped off of the ladder and showed himself to be much shorter than Harry remembered him to be. "You are not in here to buy a wand..." he said mildly.
"N-no... I got lost...." He started heading for the door.
"You should be more observant about where you land...."
Harry didn't see anything he had been on except floor. He didn't break anything that he could see. "I'm sorry... but I don't--"
"They are here today..... be on the watch..." Mr. Ollivander stared at Harry with those eyes of his and disappeared around a box covered wall.
Harry shook his head and walked out the door. Mr. Ollivander had a way of making Harry's head hurt if he tried to understand.
He caught sight of fiery hair and walked over to it. Ron was walking with Hermione. Ginny was walking with her mother. Mr. Weasley was looking around until his face turned to Harry. "There he is!" He waved at Harry.
"Good grief, Harry! You did it to us again!" Mrs. Weasley said as Harry jogged over. She started brushing off the soot from his shoulders. "You need to be more careful!"
"I'm fine! I just landed in Mr. Ollivander's shop." Harry said.
They went into Gringotts and Harry watched with a sickly feeling as Mrs. Weasley grabbed some money from their vault. He hated having them there when he went into his vault.
He tried to block the way into his vault as he piled some money into his money bag. Harry's face was pink as he closed the vault. Ginny smiled sympathetically and put an arm around him.
Hermione changed her muggle money for wizarding money and joined them at the entrance. "What about you, Nevaeh? Astra? Kennedy? Vee?" Mr. Weasley asked.
"My family vault is in America. I brought my own money with me." Astra said. Avalon brought out her own purse and smiled.
"Same..." Nevaeh said.
"What's going on again?" Kennedy said. His smile was enough to make you wonder how this boy ever survived to be a seventh year. Suddenly, realization showed on his face. "Oh! You were talking about money... well... my brother gave me a bunch of money and I had it changed in America."
"Hope it's enough..." Astra muttered. "His bother is a tightwad and a half!"
Kennedy smiled and put a protective hand on Avalon's shoulder. Astra and Nevaeh giggled as Avalon blushed furiously.
Harry broke off with Ginny and they headed off towards Madame Malkin's. Ginny and Harry both got their robes refitted. Harry met up with Hermione and Ron at Flourish and Blotts. "We need...."
"Standard book of spells year seven...." Hermione said.
Harry looked at his list again.
Defense Against Dark Creatures by Angie Thomas
Dark Spells and What they Do by Flit Wyngard
Book of Magical Creatures by Keathar Tail
Standard Book of Spells year Seven
Transfiguration year seven
Dreaming and Signs by Dale Tripping
When they got their books they headed toward Florean Fortescue's for some ice cream. Astra showed up with Nevaeh and Draco. Avalon came up behind her with Kennedy, who was munching on something happily.
Draco fidgeted some as he released Astra's hold on him. "What are you doing, Draco..." She sighed.
"I felt something....." He said. He shook his head. "Nothing..."
"Ickle Draco is having a spaz attack, eh?" Astra said as she pinched his cheek. She kissed his cheek and smiled at him. "You've gotta be my worst mistake ever...." she muttered.
"Okay, children! Let's head home!" Mr. Weasley shouted. Then, they all went to the Leaky cauldron and went back to the Burrow.
My grandmother is watching HP:SS downstairs... I didn't feel like watching a whole lot so here I am.... I wonder when the soundtrack for CoS comes out.... I can't wait! GAH! I want the third book to Angelic Layer as well... and Chobits.... and half a dozen other things as well... grrrrrrr....
Chapter Three
Harry walked down the steps of the Weasley house and into the kitchen for breakfast. He yawned loudly and rubbed the sleep from his eyes. He sat down and smiled blearily at Ginny. She giggled at him. "You look like a child with your hair like that..."
"It just grows that way...." Harry smirked at her.
Astra walked in and sat down in the manner she generally had in the morning. Her hair was even more spider web like than it usually was. It stuck out in odd angles, like Harry's, and floated as she walked. "It'll be like this for about an hour and then.... blegh...."
Hermione giggled and Ron smiled. "You two look like you had a rough night..." Ron said as he helped himself to some eggs that Mrs. Weasley put on their plates. "Thanks, mum."
"You're welcome, Ron...."
"I generally look like this in the morning Ron...." Astra said flatly.
"I had a weird dream...." Harry said as he yawned again.
"I have those all the time... I never have good dreams or nightmares... just bizarre and unreal...." Astra said nonchalantly.
"This one I can't remember very well.... I think it had something about burning houses in it...." Harry said as he ate his eggs. "And someone asking me, do you know who you are....."
Avalon came in, her long black hair cascaded down her back in waves. She stared at Harry with her black eyes and smiled. She sat down and smiled at Mrs. Weasley. "You are just so sweet, dearie!" Mrs. Weasley said as she gave Avalon a hug.
Ron stared at his mother incredulously. "What did she do that was so sweet?"
"She smiled at me in the morning... if you and your brothers did that on a normal basis, I wouldn't be like this..." she grinned.
That afternoon, Harry had a nice time playing a simplified form of Quidditch. Basically, they just tossed apples to each other. Astra was one of the worst tossers. She tossed, but ended up throwing too hard and at the wrong part of the person. Ron got thrown off his broom three times trying to avoid being beheaded by Astra.
"Sorry!" Astra called as she threw an apple at Ron again and it nearly hit his head. "Grrrr... this is why I'm a fricken beater!" she growled. Harry laughed as he caught the apple she had thrown.
That evening, Mrs. Weasley came out with a chocolate birthday cake for Harry. "Make a wish, Harry!" she beamed at him.
Harry smiled at Ginny and thought about wanting her by him always. It was a warm thought. He sighed and blew out his candles. Everyone clamored over with their presents for him. Hermione gave him a book on dark spells and defenses against them. On gave him a chess set. Astra and Nevaeh gave him a bottle of some kind of potion they had thought up.
It was Ginny's present that caught his eyes. She blushed as she gave it to him. It was a small box. He opened it and found an interesting gold ring inside. It had two lions holding a blood red gem stone. "For luck..." she muttered and kissed him.
That night, Harry slept fitfully. He couldn't find a comfortable position to be in. He sat up in bed and put on his glasses. He saw the ring glinting in the moonlight. He reached over and put it on.
He walked down the stairs into the living room and found it was already being occupied. Astra sat watching the window. Her long whitish hair flowed around her like spider silk.
"Hello, Astra.... couldn't sleep?" He said while yawning. She turned her gaze towards him.
She smiled up at him. "Yeah... I was thinking about my future...." she trailed off. "I was thinking.... about what I was going to do after we graduate...." she said.
"Graduate?"
"Yeah.... in America... we generally have this grand cerimony where we get to... you know what.... never mind...." Astra said finally. Harry didn't press it further.
"You know... I was wondering that myself...." He sat down next to her. "I wonder what's going to happen.... I feel... as though someone or something is warning me about something...." He said. "Nevermind... It's probably before school pre-head boy jitters...."
"You know... I still can't figure how you got to be Head Boy in the first place... isn't that supposed to be like this regal position?" Astra said with a smirk.
"And I'm not regal enough for it? The great and grand Harry Potter isn't Kingly enough to be Head Boy?!" Harry said as he shoved her.
"Oh hush! Just because you've got a cute pair of eyes and a cool scar, doesn't mean that you can rule the world!" Astra said. She yawned suddenly. "It looks like I'm starting to get sleepy now... I'm heading up..." She leaned over and gave him a kiss on the forehead, right on his scar. "Good night...." She walked up the stairs and disappeared.
The next couple of weeks went fine. Harry was able to get sleep, but he could never really remember what had happened in them. On the day that Mr. and Mrs. Weasley were taking them to Diagon Alley, Harry received his school supplies list. The list came with another envelope.
Hermione squealed in glee as she put on her new badge. "I've been made Head Girl!" she giggled.
Harry opened his other envelope and pulled out a badge. "It looks as though you've been made Head Boy, Harry...." Ron said while finishing his pancakes.
"Yes... it does doesn't it...." Harry said thoughtfully as he shined up the badge some more. "I don't feel like I should wear this though..."
"Oh, go on, Harry.... You're Head Boy! You can do all sorts of things now!" Ginny said with a smile. She reached up and gave him a kiss on his cheek.
"As if he couldn't before...." Astra muttered. "So... when are we going to Diagon Alley, eh?"
"After Breakfast, dearie..." Mrs. Weasley said. "I love the pictures you drew me, Astra...." she smiled at her.
"Yer welcome, Mrs. Weasley."
"Anymore sweetness and I'll have to hose it down....." Draco muttered as he walked into the kitchen. He sat down next to Astra and wrapped a arm around her waist possessively.
"And we all know that you have problems being around nice people..." Astra said impatiently. Draco drew her closer to him and smiled down at her. Her cheeks twinged pink and she went back to eating.
"I find it very interesting to have Lucius Malfoy's son staying here with us..." said Mr. Weasley mildly. "How has your time away from home been?"
Draco looked like he was debating whether to ignore Mr. Weasley, say something rude to Mr. Weasley, or be a good boy and keep his mouth shut. He seemed to settle on the latter. Mr. Weasley smiled at Astra and winked. "You have him trained already...."
"Doesn't take too long, really... once he learned that I don't tolerate his attitude towards you, he learned to just keep his trap shut..." Astra said mildly.
"Astra.... do you have to keep talking about me like I'm some sort of pet...?" Draco said through gritted teeth.
"Draco.... you ARE a pet....! Now be a good boy and you'll get a treat later...." Astra said quickly. She blushed when Nevaeh started grinning at her and waggled her eyebrows.
When they finished breakfast, everyone got dressed and came downstairs to the living room. "We'll need to get some more floo powder, Arthur." Mrs. Weasley said as she took out a handful of sparkling dust.
She threw the floo powder in and the fire grew and changed colors. "Arthur.... you first...." Mr. Weasley walked into the fire and disappeared.
They each walked in until it was Harry's turn. He hated traveling though the floo network. He always ended up swallowing a mouthful of ash when he did it. He was surprised he had not gotten sick from it.
He walked into the fire and shouted. "Diagon Alley!" He got a mouthful of ash as he shouted. He choked as he fell through the fire. He twisted and spun, holding his arms in close to his body.
He started feeling sick and fell out onto hard floor. He opened his eyes and found everything to be slightly blurry. His glasses had fallen off. He found them and picked them up. He glanced around where he had landed. He wasn't with the others.
He was in a familiar store with walls full of small boxes. He stood up and tried to brush his clothes off. He got most of the soot off of him, but most of it stayed on him. He sighed in defeat.
"Hello?"
Harry was startled by the voice. He was even more startled by someone on a moving ladder show up in his view. Mr. Ollivander smiled down at Harry. "Interesting to see you again, Harry...."
Harry gulped and smiled up at Mr. Ollivander. "Can you tell me if you saw the Weasleys pass by here yet?"
"No.... I have not..." Mr. Ollivander stepped off of the ladder and showed himself to be much shorter than Harry remembered him to be. "You are not in here to buy a wand..." he said mildly.
"N-no... I got lost...." He started heading for the door.
"You should be more observant about where you land...."
Harry didn't see anything he had been on except floor. He didn't break anything that he could see. "I'm sorry... but I don't--"
"They are here today..... be on the watch..." Mr. Ollivander stared at Harry with those eyes of his and disappeared around a box covered wall.
Harry shook his head and walked out the door. Mr. Ollivander had a way of making Harry's head hurt if he tried to understand.
He caught sight of fiery hair and walked over to it. Ron was walking with Hermione. Ginny was walking with her mother. Mr. Weasley was looking around until his face turned to Harry. "There he is!" He waved at Harry.
"Good grief, Harry! You did it to us again!" Mrs. Weasley said as Harry jogged over. She started brushing off the soot from his shoulders. "You need to be more careful!"
"I'm fine! I just landed in Mr. Ollivander's shop." Harry said.
They went into Gringotts and Harry watched with a sickly feeling as Mrs. Weasley grabbed some money from their vault. He hated having them there when he went into his vault.
He tried to block the way into his vault as he piled some money into his money bag. Harry's face was pink as he closed the vault. Ginny smiled sympathetically and put an arm around him.
Hermione changed her muggle money for wizarding money and joined them at the entrance. "What about you, Nevaeh? Astra? Kennedy? Vee?" Mr. Weasley asked.
"My family vault is in America. I brought my own money with me." Astra said. Avalon brought out her own purse and smiled.
"Same..." Nevaeh said.
"What's going on again?" Kennedy said. His smile was enough to make you wonder how this boy ever survived to be a seventh year. Suddenly, realization showed on his face. "Oh! You were talking about money... well... my brother gave me a bunch of money and I had it changed in America."
"Hope it's enough..." Astra muttered. "His bother is a tightwad and a half!"
Kennedy smiled and put a protective hand on Avalon's shoulder. Astra and Nevaeh giggled as Avalon blushed furiously.
Harry broke off with Ginny and they headed off towards Madame Malkin's. Ginny and Harry both got their robes refitted. Harry met up with Hermione and Ron at Flourish and Blotts. "We need...."
"Standard book of spells year seven...." Hermione said.
Harry looked at his list again.
Defense Against Dark Creatures by Angie Thomas
Dark Spells and What they Do by Flit Wyngard
Book of Magical Creatures by Keathar Tail
Standard Book of Spells year Seven
Transfiguration year seven
Dreaming and Signs by Dale Tripping
When they got their books they headed toward Florean Fortescue's for some ice cream. Astra showed up with Nevaeh and Draco. Avalon came up behind her with Kennedy, who was munching on something happily.
Draco fidgeted some as he released Astra's hold on him. "What are you doing, Draco..." She sighed.
"I felt something....." He said. He shook his head. "Nothing..."
"Ickle Draco is having a spaz attack, eh?" Astra said as she pinched his cheek. She kissed his cheek and smiled at him. "You've gotta be my worst mistake ever...." she muttered.
"Okay, children! Let's head home!" Mr. Weasley shouted. Then, they all went to the Leaky cauldron and went back to the Burrow.