A NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR: What you are about to read is chapter twelve, not chapter eleven. The writing of Chapter eleven has been cancelled, as it decided that it hates me. There is no such thing as chapter eleven, and therefore you missed nothing. Thank you for your time.
HalloweenDays past, weeks past, even months past, and soon Gen felt more at home than she had ever felt. It was actually a weird experience for her. Harry had gotten immensely better at being a seeker but had yet to play in a real game. Gen couldn't go to the games. It made her feel sad to know that she could, and should be the one playing. It was Halloween when things started to fall apart. Gen had the strange feeling that something important happened on Halloween in the books, but she couldn't remember what. It had been so long ago when she read them. She dismissed the thought, sure that if it was important she would think of it. In Charms class they were learning a levitation spell. As usual Gen was paired with Neville, and Hermione with Ron. Like usual neither Gen, Neville, nor Ron managed to make the spell work. Hermione showed Ron up, casting the spell with a flick of the wrist. Ron was naturally annoyed.
"It's Leviooooooosa," Ron said as they walked down the halls, "not Leviosaaaaaa! Honestly, she's a nightmare! It's no wonder she has no fiends."
Gen didn't laugh. She didn't like it when people made fun of other people, and Ron would certainly hear about it later. That was just about then when Hermione bustled through them.
"I think she heard you," Harry said with a frown.
"Now you've done it Ron!" Gen said, before marching off after Hermione, to maybe right some wrongs. It was one thing insulting people behind their back; it was another when they heard you do it. Gen remembered bitterly the people at her school who did that to her…
The day went by, and neither Gen nor Hermione went to class. Hermione had locked herself in a stall of the girl's bathroom, and was crying. Gen tried as much as she could to get Hermione to come out, but she had never really had a way with words. "You can't stay in here your whole life," Gen said nigh unto giving up, "you don't really care what he thinks do you?"
"Evidently I do!" Hermione said through tears.
"What happened to the girl who didn't care what other people thought," Gen said hopelessly.
"She never existed," Hermione choked, "whatever there was of her was shot down when her only friends treated her like a pigeon. All that's there ever was, was a girl who wanted to make people like her, a girl who wanted to make Ron like her…"
"Oh, Hermione!" Gen gasped, suddenly feeling extremely guilty, and wanting to make it up any way she could.
"Just leave!" Hermione shouted, blowing her nose. Gen gave up, and walked to the great door. It was raining outside, and Gen could hear faint rumbles that she dismissed as thunder but as soon as she opened the door she knew she had been wrong. She also remembered what happened on Halloween that was so important. Standing before Gen was the most enormous, and hideous thing she had ever seen, and she had been to New York. Standing outside the threshold was an enormous mountain troll. Gen slammed the door, running to the stall was where Hermione hid.
"Hermione," Gen said desperately, "let me in!"
"Go away!" Hermione yelled.
"You leave me no choice!" Gen pulled out her wand, and yelled, "ALOHAMORA!" The lock came unlatched, and Gen pulled the door opened, "GET DOWN!" Gen yelled, but Hermione didn't understand. The Troll was already in the room, and about to make a swipe for the stall with his club, so Gen thinking quickly threw Hermione onto the floor. Hermione escaped the blow, but Gen got the full brunt of it. She landed on the floor, completely unconscious, blood dripping down from where the club had hit her on the back of the head. Hermione stared from where she lay, covered in busted up chunks of wood at Gen's unconscious body. There was nothing she could have done. Gen had sacrificed herself for Hermione's sake, and Hermione couldn't hide the guilt in her voice. The troll picked up Gen's body by her leg, but Gen didn't even move, she couldn't even move. Robes fell off from her shoulders, and her skirt was flipped up, or rather down. Her whole body was completely limp. The troll inspected her for a moment, but soon saw movement in the rubble. It was at about that time that Harry and Ron came through the door. It only took them as long as it did, because Ron didn't like the idea of going into a girl's bathroom. Throwing Gen's unconscious body to the ground the Troll moved over to where Hermione was struggling through the rubble. Ron ran immediately to Gen's limp figure, which was crumpled in a heap against the wall. Harry's first notion was to throw something at the Troll that was now knocking sinks off the wall, attempting to get Hermione, who was shrinking against the opposite wall, as if she was about to faint. He picked up the tap to a nearby sink that was shattered on the floor, and hurled it at the troll's head. The troll turned, to see Harry standing there, and decided that that would be his new target. He started toward the small boy, holding his club above his head, but stopped, as a metal pipe hit his shoulder. He hadn't even felt the metal pipe, but he did hear a voice that accompanied it.
"Oy, Pea-brain!" Ron shouted from where he stood. The troll looked to Ron, giving Harry just enough time to run around it's back, to where Hermione lay.
"Come on Hermione!" he said, trying to help her to her feet, but she was scared out of her wits, and couldn't manage to move. The troll was heading for where Ron stood protectively over Gen's body, and Harry couldn't seem to deter it from its objective. So, running out of ideas quick Harry decided to take a running jump, and wrap his arms around the troll's neck. The troll may have been stupid, but he noticed as Harry's wand found it's way up his right nostril. The troll swung about, and grabbed Harry by the leg, as he had once done to Gen. He made a swipe for Harry's head, but missed, as Harry pulled his torso up, and out of the way of danger. He let himself fall back down, as the Troll wondered at why it hadn't worked.
"Do Something!" Harry yelled.
"What should I do?" Ron yelled back as Harry pulled up a second time, again missing the troll's walloping swing.
"Anything!" He yelled dropping back down.
Ron didn't have the slightest idea what he was doing, but he pulled out his wand, and suddenly he saw the club flying out of the troll's hand. He had cast the levitation charm. He let the charm go as the troll looked about stupidly, trying to find out where his club had gone. The club dropped, and hit the troll on the head. The troll dropped Harry on his head, before dropping to the ground, completely unconscious. Gen didn't see any of this, but she knew it happened, if only from prior knowledge. All things considered, it had been a pretty good Halloween for her. Sure she had spent the day in a public bathroom, gotten herself beaten senseless by a mountain troll, and eaten no candy, but it beat the heck out of spending all night babysitting a troop of ten-year-old boys, who had had one to many pixie sticks, and sodas.
Heh, I almost posted this without adding a blurb. Did the lack of a chapter eleven scare you? Get used to it, it's going to be a running gag. I hope you enjoyed Gen's Halloween, though it wasn't much different from the one in the book… It's actually just the scene from the book, spliced together with the scene from the movie, with a character added in. If you'd like to note Gen, for the first time, used magic! *Gasp*
Any way, I loved watching Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. If you haven't seen it, go watch it now! It was superb. I just spent the day on a charter bus, so I'm very tired. Have fun reviewing! Much love!