As they walked through the halls Aleida rummaged
through her book bag.
"What are you looking for?" Hermione asked, eyeing the bag suspiciously. "The magic bomb I'm planning to use," Aleida said, eyes not leaving her book bag, "what do you think?"
"Well, I was just curious." Hermione said defensively.
"Oh, in that case, just my CD player!" Aleida said still searching her bag, now sitting on the floor.
" A . . . what?" Ron asked looking at her.
"Oops! I guess this time your out of the loop." Harry said snickering.
"Oh, that makes me feel a whole lot better!" Ron said indignantly.
They all had a good laugh before Aleida found it.
"There!" Aleida said, thrusting the bright green player at him.
"That is CD player," Hermione quickly said, "don't you think you should show him a CD too?"
"Oh yeah ummmm . . . What type of music do you like?" Aleida asked Ron who look fairly confused.
"Err... um... I don't really know!" Ron stammered, as she pulled out four huge cases of CDs and began flipping through one of the books.
"Oh, how about Eminem!" Hermione suggested excitedly.
Harry winced slightly but lucky for him Aleida said what he was
thinking.
"Oh no, we can't expose Ron to that crap. Let's try something good," Aleida began, but then she
saw Hermione's hurt look and quickly added, "but maybe
later!"
Harry quickly voiced his opinion, "How about
Good Charlotte?" he suggested, seeing her flipped to
that precise CD.
"My thoughts exactly!"
She flipped the CD out of its holder and placed it in the open CD
player all in one motion. She slapped down the cover
and hit the play button. Soon enough loud music was
blasting and the halls filled with noise.
"Wow! Cool music!" Ron hollered while listening to the rock.
By the time they had reached the common room Ron had
already gone through half of her books and was bobbing
along with the music. As they reached the common room
Hermione noticed something.
"Aleida, how did you get your CD player to work? Muggle technology doesn't work in Hogwarts!"
Aleida opened her mouth to say something, but what she was going to say was never
heard for at that moment Ron interrupted.
"ALEIDA, THIS THING IS GREAT!" he hollered at them as they all broke
into laughter. Hermione, after the noise settled
down, went to her room to research how to charm a CD
player. Ron was listening to the blaring music so
Aleida quickly seized this opportunity.
"Harry, next week!" she whispered excitedly.
"What?!?!"
"Next week I'm telling the school," She muttered as
fast as possible as Hermione approached them.
"When I went to get my book I remembered the homework we had!"
She announced excitedly. Aleida and Harry groaned as
they got up and got their homework. Aleida went over
to Ron and ripped the headphones off his head and
said,
"I need these to do homework, OK?"
"WHAT HOMEWORK?" he screamed.
"Very funny, Ron" Hermione said in a reprimanding tone.
"Oh, that homework." he sighed, returning to his normal volume. Aleida giggled as she went to a different corner of the room and sat in a
secluded chair. She tapped her CD player with her wand
and drew a box all around her before starting her
homework. Apparently she could hear something, because
she had begun to sing to the tune of Good Charlotte's
Bloody Valentine. Suddenly Harry's mind did a flip and
he felt as if he was back in the pensive. When the
image became clear Harry was watching a young woman
rock a baby.
"Mom?" whispered Harry into the air.
To Harry's surprise a little girl came bounding into the
room. She appeared to be around the age of six and had
long blonde hair. Harry instantly recognized who it
was when he saw the bright pink under lining of the
blonde.
"Lily, hi!" the little girl said happily.
"Baby Harry!" she cried as she tickled the baby under his chin."
"Yes Aleida, Harry is a baby..." Lily responded soothingly.
"That's Aleida!" Harry said surprised at the innocence of the now juvenile
delinquent.
"Can I sing for him pleeeeaaasseee?!" Aleida pleaded.
"Yes Aleida, sure why not!" Lily reassured.
Harry suddenly found himself back in his
common room, Aleida's voice still singing.
"Woah!" Harry gasped.
"What?" Ron asked, looking at Harry strangely.
"I think I just had a flashback," he said
dazed, blinking his eyes to focus the room.
"Really, to what?" Hermione asked as she looked at him.
"To my mother and . . . " Harry paused.
He quickly realized his mistake and was thinking up a way to cover it when
Ron and Hermione asked in unison,
"And what?"
"And . .. . Me." he said slowly and shooting a glance toward
Aleida.
Hermione quickly decided to change the topic.
"She has a wonderful singing voice, huh?" Hermione
said, looking at Harry to see if it worked.
"Yeah." he replied his eyes still glazed.
"I wonder what she is singing to?" Ron questioned, catching on to Hermione's idea.
"Let's go see," Harry said now getting up and
walking over to her corner.
The other two followed as he walked. When he reached her corner he reached out his hand to tap her shoulder. Except instead of
tapping her shoulder his hand smacked in to something
hard. She had just begun to head bang ferociously to
Cheating by Jettinghams.
Harry persisted to test the "Wall". Human nature told him to test the wall even though his mind knew it was there. He proceeded to
kick, slap, and punch the wall with all his might. Ron
and Hermione were equally stumped.
"What do we do?" Harry asked to no one in particular.
"Dunno," Ron said desperately. By now the song had changed to Alien Ant
Farm's Fat Lip. Aleida had risen and was standing on
her chair jumping up and own singing full blast to her
music. When the song ended she opened her eyes and saw
the three standing there.
"Hi!" she said tilting her head slightly. They said something she couldn't
understand and she looked at them for a minute before
whipping out her wand. She tapped her CD player again
and then the wall. Immediately Harry touched the area
where the wall would be, but it wasn't there anymore.
"There now what did you say?" she asked, jumping off
the chair and landing in front of them.
"Nothing much...just that you were singing and dancing like a crazed
monkey!" Ron snickered.
"Oh, that's all! Well then, how are you?" Aleida replied her famous sarcastic smile sneaking on to her face.
"Great! We finished our homework!" Hermione said enthusiastically, clearly
missing the joke.
"Ah, so did I!" Aleida said, displaying many scrolls.
"Well best be off to bed then," Ron suggested yawning loudly.
Ron, Hermione, and Harry began to head to bed but Aleida stayed
behind.
"Aren't you coming?" Hermione asked looking back.
"I'll be up in a minute... got to pick up my stuff,"
Aleida said, pointing to a heaping pile of
papers. The others said goodnight and headed to bed.
Harry couldn't rest though; he woke around midnight
and couldn't fall back to sleep. He went up to the
window hoping that the calm air would ease him to sleep.
As he looked out on to the lake he saw a flash of
white pass by. His first instinct told him it was just
an owl. Suddenly he had another idea of what it might
be.
"Aleida?" he whispered out into the night air.
The same blob flew by again and he saw a bunch of feathers
too. This time Harry stuck his head out the open
window.
"Any one there?" he asked the cold wind.
"Yep!" squeaked a head bobbing in the air.
Harry, taken by surprise tumbled backwards. "Relax, it's just me!"
through her book bag.
"What are you looking for?" Hermione asked, eyeing the bag suspiciously. "The magic bomb I'm planning to use," Aleida said, eyes not leaving her book bag, "what do you think?"
"Well, I was just curious." Hermione said defensively.
"Oh, in that case, just my CD player!" Aleida said still searching her bag, now sitting on the floor.
" A . . . what?" Ron asked looking at her.
"Oops! I guess this time your out of the loop." Harry said snickering.
"Oh, that makes me feel a whole lot better!" Ron said indignantly.
They all had a good laugh before Aleida found it.
"There!" Aleida said, thrusting the bright green player at him.
"That is CD player," Hermione quickly said, "don't you think you should show him a CD too?"
"Oh yeah ummmm . . . What type of music do you like?" Aleida asked Ron who look fairly confused.
"Err... um... I don't really know!" Ron stammered, as she pulled out four huge cases of CDs and began flipping through one of the books.
"Oh, how about Eminem!" Hermione suggested excitedly.
Harry winced slightly but lucky for him Aleida said what he was
thinking.
"Oh no, we can't expose Ron to that crap. Let's try something good," Aleida began, but then she
saw Hermione's hurt look and quickly added, "but maybe
later!"
Harry quickly voiced his opinion, "How about
Good Charlotte?" he suggested, seeing her flipped to
that precise CD.
"My thoughts exactly!"
She flipped the CD out of its holder and placed it in the open CD
player all in one motion. She slapped down the cover
and hit the play button. Soon enough loud music was
blasting and the halls filled with noise.
"Wow! Cool music!" Ron hollered while listening to the rock.
By the time they had reached the common room Ron had
already gone through half of her books and was bobbing
along with the music. As they reached the common room
Hermione noticed something.
"Aleida, how did you get your CD player to work? Muggle technology doesn't work in Hogwarts!"
Aleida opened her mouth to say something, but what she was going to say was never
heard for at that moment Ron interrupted.
"ALEIDA, THIS THING IS GREAT!" he hollered at them as they all broke
into laughter. Hermione, after the noise settled
down, went to her room to research how to charm a CD
player. Ron was listening to the blaring music so
Aleida quickly seized this opportunity.
"Harry, next week!" she whispered excitedly.
"What?!?!"
"Next week I'm telling the school," She muttered as
fast as possible as Hermione approached them.
"When I went to get my book I remembered the homework we had!"
She announced excitedly. Aleida and Harry groaned as
they got up and got their homework. Aleida went over
to Ron and ripped the headphones off his head and
said,
"I need these to do homework, OK?"
"WHAT HOMEWORK?" he screamed.
"Very funny, Ron" Hermione said in a reprimanding tone.
"Oh, that homework." he sighed, returning to his normal volume. Aleida giggled as she went to a different corner of the room and sat in a
secluded chair. She tapped her CD player with her wand
and drew a box all around her before starting her
homework. Apparently she could hear something, because
she had begun to sing to the tune of Good Charlotte's
Bloody Valentine. Suddenly Harry's mind did a flip and
he felt as if he was back in the pensive. When the
image became clear Harry was watching a young woman
rock a baby.
"Mom?" whispered Harry into the air.
To Harry's surprise a little girl came bounding into the
room. She appeared to be around the age of six and had
long blonde hair. Harry instantly recognized who it
was when he saw the bright pink under lining of the
blonde.
"Lily, hi!" the little girl said happily.
"Baby Harry!" she cried as she tickled the baby under his chin."
"Yes Aleida, Harry is a baby..." Lily responded soothingly.
"That's Aleida!" Harry said surprised at the innocence of the now juvenile
delinquent.
"Can I sing for him pleeeeaaasseee?!" Aleida pleaded.
"Yes Aleida, sure why not!" Lily reassured.
Harry suddenly found himself back in his
common room, Aleida's voice still singing.
"Woah!" Harry gasped.
"What?" Ron asked, looking at Harry strangely.
"I think I just had a flashback," he said
dazed, blinking his eyes to focus the room.
"Really, to what?" Hermione asked as she looked at him.
"To my mother and . . . " Harry paused.
He quickly realized his mistake and was thinking up a way to cover it when
Ron and Hermione asked in unison,
"And what?"
"And . .. . Me." he said slowly and shooting a glance toward
Aleida.
Hermione quickly decided to change the topic.
"She has a wonderful singing voice, huh?" Hermione
said, looking at Harry to see if it worked.
"Yeah." he replied his eyes still glazed.
"I wonder what she is singing to?" Ron questioned, catching on to Hermione's idea.
"Let's go see," Harry said now getting up and
walking over to her corner.
The other two followed as he walked. When he reached her corner he reached out his hand to tap her shoulder. Except instead of
tapping her shoulder his hand smacked in to something
hard. She had just begun to head bang ferociously to
Cheating by Jettinghams.
Harry persisted to test the "Wall". Human nature told him to test the wall even though his mind knew it was there. He proceeded to
kick, slap, and punch the wall with all his might. Ron
and Hermione were equally stumped.
"What do we do?" Harry asked to no one in particular.
"Dunno," Ron said desperately. By now the song had changed to Alien Ant
Farm's Fat Lip. Aleida had risen and was standing on
her chair jumping up and own singing full blast to her
music. When the song ended she opened her eyes and saw
the three standing there.
"Hi!" she said tilting her head slightly. They said something she couldn't
understand and she looked at them for a minute before
whipping out her wand. She tapped her CD player again
and then the wall. Immediately Harry touched the area
where the wall would be, but it wasn't there anymore.
"There now what did you say?" she asked, jumping off
the chair and landing in front of them.
"Nothing much...just that you were singing and dancing like a crazed
monkey!" Ron snickered.
"Oh, that's all! Well then, how are you?" Aleida replied her famous sarcastic smile sneaking on to her face.
"Great! We finished our homework!" Hermione said enthusiastically, clearly
missing the joke.
"Ah, so did I!" Aleida said, displaying many scrolls.
"Well best be off to bed then," Ron suggested yawning loudly.
Ron, Hermione, and Harry began to head to bed but Aleida stayed
behind.
"Aren't you coming?" Hermione asked looking back.
"I'll be up in a minute... got to pick up my stuff,"
Aleida said, pointing to a heaping pile of
papers. The others said goodnight and headed to bed.
Harry couldn't rest though; he woke around midnight
and couldn't fall back to sleep. He went up to the
window hoping that the calm air would ease him to sleep.
As he looked out on to the lake he saw a flash of
white pass by. His first instinct told him it was just
an owl. Suddenly he had another idea of what it might
be.
"Aleida?" he whispered out into the night air.
The same blob flew by again and he saw a bunch of feathers
too. This time Harry stuck his head out the open
window.
"Any one there?" he asked the cold wind.
"Yep!" squeaked a head bobbing in the air.
Harry, taken by surprise tumbled backwards. "Relax, it's just me!"