Chapter 1
Harry, Hermione, & Ron were all sitting silently listening to professor Dumbledore speak at the beginning of the year feast.
"We have a new student this year transferring from the Salem academy in America, please show respect towards her."
Dumbledore looked around for the new student and almost as if summoned she walked in. she was a tall girl, wearing all black, black baggy pants, a black t-shirt that said: "you laugh because I'm different, I laugh because your all the same" on it, black sneakers, black lipstick, and black hair. There were red streaks in her hair and she had many piercings, including and eyebrow piercing, an earring in the cartilage of her right ear and three down her left ear, and a nose ring. Everyone just stared at her, mostly with disgust. Her robe was flowing behind her as she walked up to Dumbledore. He directed her to sit on the stool and put the sorting hat on. She sat down, put the hat on.
"Hmmm, you've been through much heartache, hmm yes, you've gotten through it though I see, courage, yes, quite smart, cunning too, hmmm, where to put you..." the hat whispered in her ear, "I know, you'll go into---- GRYFFINDOR!!!" the hat shouted.
The girl, Jenavive Dawson as Dumbledore announce after she had taken the hat off, walked silently over to the Gryffindor table. She looked neither happy nor sad or mad to have been sorted into Gryffindor, and no one clapped when she was sorted. She sat at the very end of the table where there weren't too many people. As a matter of a fact, she seemed to have no expression at all. She sat there, twisting the ring on she was wearing around and around on her finger the entire time. Harry, Ron and Hermione kept glancing at her. After the feast Hermione [who had been made a prefect] got up and escorted the new first years up to the dorms. Jenavive followed at the back of the line, looking forward not saying anything, just walking. When they arrived she went straight up to the dorms and slumped on her bed. The next day was a Saturday so Harry Hermione and Ron all went out onto the grounds. Jenavive stayed in the entire day. She had learned a spell to allow her to turn on anything electrical at Hogwarts, so she brought out her boom box into the deserted common room, put he spell on it, and put in her CD, system of a down's toxicity, and pressed play. When Harry Ron and Hermione opened the portrait hole, they stopped dead in their tracks. Jenavive was dancing to the song give it away, she had changed the CDs by now, by Red Hot chili peppers.
[I] Give it away now, Give it way now, Give it away now, Oooohh! Give it away now, Give it away now, Give it away now...[/I]
She was doing her own form of dance, kind of like break dancing, but, well different. After the song was over she walked over to the boom box and took out the red hot chili peppers CD and replaced it with Linkin' Park's reanimation. She skipped to track 3.
[I] Ay yo, when this first started off it was just Linkin' Park, and then in the middle came Motion Man, and at the end of it all, came Cut Master Kurt with a remix With a remix One thing I don't know why, It doesn't even matter how hard you try, Keep that in mind, I designed this rhyme, When I was obsessed with time, All I know, Time was just slipping away, And I watched it count down to the end of the day.... [/I]
Jenavive also danced to this in her own unique way, a beautiful form, yet different.
[I] Watched it watch me, And the words that I say, The echo in the clock rhythm, In my veins I know, That I didn't look out below, And I watched the time go right out the window, Tryin' to grab hold, Tryin' not to watch, I wasted it all on the hands of the clock, But in the end, No matter what I pretend, The journey is more important than the end, Brother stark, And what it meant to me will eventually be a memory, Of a time I tried so hard and got so far, But in the end it doesn't really matter, I had to fall, To loose it all, But in the end it doesn't even matter, Yo one thing, I don't know why, It doesn't even matter how hard you try, Keep that in mind, I designed this rhyme, To explain the due time, All I know, Hi I so socialize, Like the host of the party, I spoke shake the night, Eye contact, Party to toast strong arm at, Northeast southwest coast, I'm starin' out the window, No opportunity to mend all, I tried to sew it up, You reek in your system, And I had to fold up, I brought you back some things, Like the imaginary man of your dreams, You'd always seem to make it worth it, A pig skin, I live to nerf it, You fell in love with another brother, Real bringin' you pleasure, By any means a mean I'm leavin' your team, To many teen magazines, And I tried so hard, and got so far, But in the end it doesn't even matter, I had to fall, To loose it all, But in the end it doesn't even matter, Linkin' park, Remix, Motion, motion, motion man, Linkin' park, The end, the end, Cut ma- cut ma- cut master Kurt, Linkin' park, Remix, Motion, motion, motion man, Linkin' park, The end, the end, Cut master Kurt, Remix, One thing I don't know how, It doesn't even matter when you look at it now, Cuz' when I designed this rhyme, I was scared of it all, scared to fall, I hadn't even tried to crawl, But I was forced to run, With you mockin' me, Stoppin' me, Backstabbing me constantly, Remembering all the times you fought with me, Watch the clock, Mouth chip hock full of hypocrisy, Now your mouth wishes it could inhale, Every single little thing you said to make things fail, Every single word you sputtered just to get your peace, But it doesn't really matter to me, Cuz' from the start to the end No matter what I pretend, The journey is more important than the end, Brother stark, But what it meant to me will eventually, Be a memory of a time I tried so hard, And got so far, But in the end it doesn't even matter, I had to fall, To loose it all, But in the end it doesn't even matter In the end!!!! [/I]
The song ended and she pressed stop on the CD player and sat down in a chair and sighed, looking at the floor. Ron Harry and Hermione were still frozen in awe at the portrait hole. Jenavive looked up and jumped in surprise.
"Uhhhh.... h-h-hi" she sputtered.
They just stared. She was wearing weird clothing, not unlike the clothes she had been the day before, a black hoodie that said: "No one's a virgin, life screws us all", the same black shoes, baggy jeans with a silver stripe down the side, deep purple lipstick, the same silver stud in her eyebrow, silver studs in her ear lobes, three small silver hoops going all down the cartilage of her left ear and one in her right, a ruby nose ring stud, the same ring she had been twirling on her ring finger of her right hand, and a silver lightning bolt shaped necklace with red and gold sparkles filling in the middle cavity. She frowned, sighed, got up, grabbed her CD player, and stomped upstairs.
"Maybe we shouldn't judge her by the way she looks, I know she may dress weird, but, I've never judged a book by its cover, so why should we judge her by the outside look?" Hermione suggested.
"Yeah, I know I wouldn't want to be judged by the way I look" Harry said, running his fingers through his messy hair.
"I'm going to go talk to her" Hermione suggested.
"Okay, we'll wait down here."
Hermione nodded and went upstairs. When she opened the door, Jenavive was lying on her bed, a portable CD player resting on top of her stomach, with her eyes closed. As if expecting Hermione to be there, she took off her headphones, opened her eyes, sat up and looked at Hermione.
"What do you want?" she said blankly.
"I want to say I'm sorry about how we reacted when we saw you in the common room a few minutes ago"
Jenavive sighed then replied, "I forgive you. Its not the first time I've been judged..."
she trailed off and layed back down. She rolled over with her arm under her pillow supporting her head.
"I'm really a nice person once you get to know me. The only reason I dress like this is because the way my life has gone for the past 10 or 11 years."
"what's so wrong with your life?"
"I'll tell you downstairs, with those boys your were standing next to so I don't have to explain to them too.
"Alright"
so they walked downstairs where Harry and Ron where sitting.
"first of all, lets get acquainted, I'm Jenavive Dawson, some people call me J.D., some people call me Jen, Jena, Vive, J, whatever you want to call me is fine."
" I'm Harry, Harry Potter."
she shook his hand and said, "Harry Potter eh? I've heard of you, I understand how you must feel, living with those awful muggles."
"yeah"
"hello I'm Ron Weasley"
she shook his hand also, "nice to meet you"
"I'm Hermione Granger."
"Nice to meet you all, I'm going to begin my story now.
Let's see where to start...
well my life was perfectly normal until my 5th birthday. My parents had set up a wonderful party for me. After the party was over and my friends had left, I went to bed. The next day I woke up before my parents, little did I know that I would never see them alive again. I learned later on in my life that some people called "pattern killers", pattern killers are killers who kill in a certain path and usually use the same method to kill their targets, had snuck into our home and rigged a trap."
"what kind of trap?" hermione asked.
"a most unusual one, piano wires."
"piano wires?" Ron repeated, a bit confused.
"They pull them until they are extremely tight across a doorway at the neck height of an average adult.
What makes this a killing device is that when a person who has just woken up won't see the thin wire, walk right into it and slit their throats."
Harry Ron and Hermione all flinched.
"Me being the age I was, was to short to run into the wire, so I passed right under it without noticing it. I went to pour myself some cereal when I heard two loud thumps. I went to see what it was. I went to my mother's room which was at the opposite end of the house from my dad's and saw her lying on the ground. Her throat was cut, and there was a bloody wire in the doorway....."
Jenavive took a deep breath.
"I went to my dad's side of the house and found the same. I collapsed onto my dad's body and wept, when I suddenly had a bunch of visions, visions of horrible people beating me, and hurting me. Two years later, after staying in an orphanage for two long years, I was adopted by the Greenes. They looked the same as the people in my vision, and when they took me to their home, they beat me, just like I had seen in my vision. That's how I learned I had telepathic powers. I had stayed with the Greenes for about a year when the authorities found out what they were doing to me the put me into new care, this time with a witch and wizard couple." "I stayed with them for about 6 and a half years. They were killed in a car crash just a few short months ago. Then I was adopted by the Dawsons, they live here in Scotland so I moved in with them, coming from America, so now here I am."
"Not to sound rude, but why exactly do you dress like you do?" Ron asked.
" really its just something to show you that, 'hey! I'm dead inside, there is nothing left you can do to hurt me' of course that's only an image.."
they all seemed to think about this, in a respectful way. They felt more comfortable around J.D. [which is the name they picked to call her] now that they understood her and what she has gone and is going through. They got to know each other over the next week or so and they became good friends. They learned quite a bit about each other, like J.D's hair wasn't naturally black, its really naturally golden blonde. She also has a mysterious elven background that many people believe to be a myth. The ring that she always wears is supposedly an elven ring, one of the three rings given to the elven kings in ancient myths. J.D read alot, like hermione. Her knowledge of books led to a very interesting and fateful conversation.
Harry, Hermione, & Ron were all sitting silently listening to professor Dumbledore speak at the beginning of the year feast.
"We have a new student this year transferring from the Salem academy in America, please show respect towards her."
Dumbledore looked around for the new student and almost as if summoned she walked in. she was a tall girl, wearing all black, black baggy pants, a black t-shirt that said: "you laugh because I'm different, I laugh because your all the same" on it, black sneakers, black lipstick, and black hair. There were red streaks in her hair and she had many piercings, including and eyebrow piercing, an earring in the cartilage of her right ear and three down her left ear, and a nose ring. Everyone just stared at her, mostly with disgust. Her robe was flowing behind her as she walked up to Dumbledore. He directed her to sit on the stool and put the sorting hat on. She sat down, put the hat on.
"Hmmm, you've been through much heartache, hmm yes, you've gotten through it though I see, courage, yes, quite smart, cunning too, hmmm, where to put you..." the hat whispered in her ear, "I know, you'll go into---- GRYFFINDOR!!!" the hat shouted.
The girl, Jenavive Dawson as Dumbledore announce after she had taken the hat off, walked silently over to the Gryffindor table. She looked neither happy nor sad or mad to have been sorted into Gryffindor, and no one clapped when she was sorted. She sat at the very end of the table where there weren't too many people. As a matter of a fact, she seemed to have no expression at all. She sat there, twisting the ring on she was wearing around and around on her finger the entire time. Harry, Ron and Hermione kept glancing at her. After the feast Hermione [who had been made a prefect] got up and escorted the new first years up to the dorms. Jenavive followed at the back of the line, looking forward not saying anything, just walking. When they arrived she went straight up to the dorms and slumped on her bed. The next day was a Saturday so Harry Hermione and Ron all went out onto the grounds. Jenavive stayed in the entire day. She had learned a spell to allow her to turn on anything electrical at Hogwarts, so she brought out her boom box into the deserted common room, put he spell on it, and put in her CD, system of a down's toxicity, and pressed play. When Harry Ron and Hermione opened the portrait hole, they stopped dead in their tracks. Jenavive was dancing to the song give it away, she had changed the CDs by now, by Red Hot chili peppers.
[I] Give it away now, Give it way now, Give it away now, Oooohh! Give it away now, Give it away now, Give it away now...[/I]
She was doing her own form of dance, kind of like break dancing, but, well different. After the song was over she walked over to the boom box and took out the red hot chili peppers CD and replaced it with Linkin' Park's reanimation. She skipped to track 3.
[I] Ay yo, when this first started off it was just Linkin' Park, and then in the middle came Motion Man, and at the end of it all, came Cut Master Kurt with a remix With a remix One thing I don't know why, It doesn't even matter how hard you try, Keep that in mind, I designed this rhyme, When I was obsessed with time, All I know, Time was just slipping away, And I watched it count down to the end of the day.... [/I]
Jenavive also danced to this in her own unique way, a beautiful form, yet different.
[I] Watched it watch me, And the words that I say, The echo in the clock rhythm, In my veins I know, That I didn't look out below, And I watched the time go right out the window, Tryin' to grab hold, Tryin' not to watch, I wasted it all on the hands of the clock, But in the end, No matter what I pretend, The journey is more important than the end, Brother stark, And what it meant to me will eventually be a memory, Of a time I tried so hard and got so far, But in the end it doesn't really matter, I had to fall, To loose it all, But in the end it doesn't even matter, Yo one thing, I don't know why, It doesn't even matter how hard you try, Keep that in mind, I designed this rhyme, To explain the due time, All I know, Hi I so socialize, Like the host of the party, I spoke shake the night, Eye contact, Party to toast strong arm at, Northeast southwest coast, I'm starin' out the window, No opportunity to mend all, I tried to sew it up, You reek in your system, And I had to fold up, I brought you back some things, Like the imaginary man of your dreams, You'd always seem to make it worth it, A pig skin, I live to nerf it, You fell in love with another brother, Real bringin' you pleasure, By any means a mean I'm leavin' your team, To many teen magazines, And I tried so hard, and got so far, But in the end it doesn't even matter, I had to fall, To loose it all, But in the end it doesn't even matter, Linkin' park, Remix, Motion, motion, motion man, Linkin' park, The end, the end, Cut ma- cut ma- cut master Kurt, Linkin' park, Remix, Motion, motion, motion man, Linkin' park, The end, the end, Cut master Kurt, Remix, One thing I don't know how, It doesn't even matter when you look at it now, Cuz' when I designed this rhyme, I was scared of it all, scared to fall, I hadn't even tried to crawl, But I was forced to run, With you mockin' me, Stoppin' me, Backstabbing me constantly, Remembering all the times you fought with me, Watch the clock, Mouth chip hock full of hypocrisy, Now your mouth wishes it could inhale, Every single little thing you said to make things fail, Every single word you sputtered just to get your peace, But it doesn't really matter to me, Cuz' from the start to the end No matter what I pretend, The journey is more important than the end, Brother stark, But what it meant to me will eventually, Be a memory of a time I tried so hard, And got so far, But in the end it doesn't even matter, I had to fall, To loose it all, But in the end it doesn't even matter In the end!!!! [/I]
The song ended and she pressed stop on the CD player and sat down in a chair and sighed, looking at the floor. Ron Harry and Hermione were still frozen in awe at the portrait hole. Jenavive looked up and jumped in surprise.
"Uhhhh.... h-h-hi" she sputtered.
They just stared. She was wearing weird clothing, not unlike the clothes she had been the day before, a black hoodie that said: "No one's a virgin, life screws us all", the same black shoes, baggy jeans with a silver stripe down the side, deep purple lipstick, the same silver stud in her eyebrow, silver studs in her ear lobes, three small silver hoops going all down the cartilage of her left ear and one in her right, a ruby nose ring stud, the same ring she had been twirling on her ring finger of her right hand, and a silver lightning bolt shaped necklace with red and gold sparkles filling in the middle cavity. She frowned, sighed, got up, grabbed her CD player, and stomped upstairs.
"Maybe we shouldn't judge her by the way she looks, I know she may dress weird, but, I've never judged a book by its cover, so why should we judge her by the outside look?" Hermione suggested.
"Yeah, I know I wouldn't want to be judged by the way I look" Harry said, running his fingers through his messy hair.
"I'm going to go talk to her" Hermione suggested.
"Okay, we'll wait down here."
Hermione nodded and went upstairs. When she opened the door, Jenavive was lying on her bed, a portable CD player resting on top of her stomach, with her eyes closed. As if expecting Hermione to be there, she took off her headphones, opened her eyes, sat up and looked at Hermione.
"What do you want?" she said blankly.
"I want to say I'm sorry about how we reacted when we saw you in the common room a few minutes ago"
Jenavive sighed then replied, "I forgive you. Its not the first time I've been judged..."
she trailed off and layed back down. She rolled over with her arm under her pillow supporting her head.
"I'm really a nice person once you get to know me. The only reason I dress like this is because the way my life has gone for the past 10 or 11 years."
"what's so wrong with your life?"
"I'll tell you downstairs, with those boys your were standing next to so I don't have to explain to them too.
"Alright"
so they walked downstairs where Harry and Ron where sitting.
"first of all, lets get acquainted, I'm Jenavive Dawson, some people call me J.D., some people call me Jen, Jena, Vive, J, whatever you want to call me is fine."
" I'm Harry, Harry Potter."
she shook his hand and said, "Harry Potter eh? I've heard of you, I understand how you must feel, living with those awful muggles."
"yeah"
"hello I'm Ron Weasley"
she shook his hand also, "nice to meet you"
"I'm Hermione Granger."
"Nice to meet you all, I'm going to begin my story now.
Let's see where to start...
well my life was perfectly normal until my 5th birthday. My parents had set up a wonderful party for me. After the party was over and my friends had left, I went to bed. The next day I woke up before my parents, little did I know that I would never see them alive again. I learned later on in my life that some people called "pattern killers", pattern killers are killers who kill in a certain path and usually use the same method to kill their targets, had snuck into our home and rigged a trap."
"what kind of trap?" hermione asked.
"a most unusual one, piano wires."
"piano wires?" Ron repeated, a bit confused.
"They pull them until they are extremely tight across a doorway at the neck height of an average adult.
What makes this a killing device is that when a person who has just woken up won't see the thin wire, walk right into it and slit their throats."
Harry Ron and Hermione all flinched.
"Me being the age I was, was to short to run into the wire, so I passed right under it without noticing it. I went to pour myself some cereal when I heard two loud thumps. I went to see what it was. I went to my mother's room which was at the opposite end of the house from my dad's and saw her lying on the ground. Her throat was cut, and there was a bloody wire in the doorway....."
Jenavive took a deep breath.
"I went to my dad's side of the house and found the same. I collapsed onto my dad's body and wept, when I suddenly had a bunch of visions, visions of horrible people beating me, and hurting me. Two years later, after staying in an orphanage for two long years, I was adopted by the Greenes. They looked the same as the people in my vision, and when they took me to their home, they beat me, just like I had seen in my vision. That's how I learned I had telepathic powers. I had stayed with the Greenes for about a year when the authorities found out what they were doing to me the put me into new care, this time with a witch and wizard couple." "I stayed with them for about 6 and a half years. They were killed in a car crash just a few short months ago. Then I was adopted by the Dawsons, they live here in Scotland so I moved in with them, coming from America, so now here I am."
"Not to sound rude, but why exactly do you dress like you do?" Ron asked.
" really its just something to show you that, 'hey! I'm dead inside, there is nothing left you can do to hurt me' of course that's only an image.."
they all seemed to think about this, in a respectful way. They felt more comfortable around J.D. [which is the name they picked to call her] now that they understood her and what she has gone and is going through. They got to know each other over the next week or so and they became good friends. They learned quite a bit about each other, like J.D's hair wasn't naturally black, its really naturally golden blonde. She also has a mysterious elven background that many people believe to be a myth. The ring that she always wears is supposedly an elven ring, one of the three rings given to the elven kings in ancient myths. J.D read alot, like hermione. Her knowledge of books led to a very interesting and fateful conversation.
