When Science Labs Explode
Disclaimer: We would like to make it clear that we IN NO WAY own or claim to own, or any rights to, or any trademarks of any characters recognizable from the Harry Potter series by Joanne Kathleen Rowling. Or any trademarks, rights to, express or implied, to the Calgary Board of Education, or anything else at all you may recognize from anywhere else.
We also in no way own Ransom Jr. High or any teachers therein. ALL THE CHARACTERS IN THIS STORY THAT ARE NOT FROM THE HARRY POTTER SERIES WERE EXTRACTED FROM REAL LIFE AND ARE BASED ON REAL PEOPLE. PLEASE DO NOT SCREW AROUND WITH THEM, FOR WHATEVER REASON YOUR TWISTED MIND MAY THINK OF. However, we changed everyone's names (including our own). Neither do we mean to upset any supporters of the Canadian Alliance. If you support them, don't read this!
A/N: I wrote this with Ella Moon, so if you recognize her style of writing or word usage or whatever, then that'll be why. This is also my very first time posting so if things are a little screwed, I apologize. I'M LEARNING!!!
Chapter 3
The next day everyone went down for breakfast. The GATEs sat at the Gryffindor table. When asked why they weren't at their own tables, they said they wanted to be with their friends, and you could take your tables and put `em where the sun don't shine. At the other end of the table, George waved his hand in front of Fred's eyes.
"Yoo-hoo! Anybody home?" he asked.
"Just… thinking… I think I know why Dad likes Muggles so much," Fred answered.
"What? Why are you smiling?" George eyed the slight smile Fred wore suspiciously.
"Don't you think she's hot?" Fred answered, and pointed toward Siri.
"Um… no, not really. But she is hot," he pointed to Fiona. Fred eyed his brother warily, wondering if insanity was contagious. He shrugged and said, "See what I mean? Now I know why Dad loves Muggles so much."
"Uh-huh," (Lily and Kaitlyn happened to glance down the table at that particular point in time and saw the discussion going on between Fred and George. They also noted the sappy looks and goofy smiles on the twins' faces. They glanced at each other and burst out laughing)
Harry started to laugh. He stopped when he realized that Ron was not participating in the hilarity. "Ron?" Harry waved a hand in front of his friend's face. "Hellooo, Ron? Earth to Ron, come in Ron!"
"Huh?" Ron blinked and looked at Harry. "What?"
"Is there something wrong with you?" Harry said, having just noticed that Ron was staring at some blonde GATE girl and sighing (naturally, from behind, as she was talking to someone beside her and therefore facing away from Harry, he didn't recognize her as Kaitlyn Gainstein, the freak who knew a lot about him. And Ron. And everyone else).
"Uh, nooo…" Ron turned a very interesting shade of red and concentrated on his breakfast, which was already cold. Harry didn't believe him, but hey, what can you do with Ron when he's acting like this? Harry remembered Ron's last crush - split between Hermione (Harry had finally, over the summer, realized why Ron had disliked Krum so much) and Fleur, he'd been immovable.
At the Ravenclaw table as well eyes were turning towards the new girls. Terry Boot was sighing over Lily, (who, with Kait, turned blind when it came to boys looking at them) who was laughing her head off at Siri's Darth Vader impressions (*khhh* Luke, I'm choking on my own mucus *khhh*). In the meantime, Terry's friends either gave him funny looks or were ignoring him, seeing as they were doing the same, but over different girls. They really seemed to finally open their eyes to the girls, possibly because there were some new and different ones, which reminded them about the ones that they'd "grown up" with. Even at the Slytherin table, Pansy Parkinson's eyes strayed to Kirk T. The GATE kids were certainly becoming popular. Cupid (if you were there you might just have been able to see him flitting about across the sky-blue ceiling. Fiona noticed him, and heaved her sighs toward the teachers' table) was having something of a field day, although McGonagall was heard later accusing Dumbledore of setting him loose. Breakfast was truly enjoyable (despite the fact that Lily {and Siri, but she did that to all food except for Amerigonas} had eyed it suspiciously, and poked at it with her fork), though somewhat loud. Later they all went off to their classes. The GATE kids were told to go to the South Tower.
Many minutes of trudging up staircase after staircase, they finally got to the top of the South Tower, and went into the top. It was like a cozy living room, but with more tables. It was actually remarkably like Trelawney's room, but less stuffy and more Miss Andrews-ey.
"Hey, guys," Miss Andrews said. "OK, today is basically just getting you settled in at Hogwarts. Professor Dumbledore should be along any minute. Until then, you guys can talk."
Everyone started talking amongst themselves. Fiona was going on about Sirius Black, whom she seemed to have an insane crush on. Kait, Sally, and everyone else were trying to hold back laughs.
"You know, if he likes you back before five years from now, he'd be a pedophile," answered Ariadne (but she couldn't talk, she still had her heart set on a Norwegian murderer). They stopped short, however, when Siri told them to shut up (they didn't want her to eat them).
"Look what I've got," she said, and pulled a wand from her bag.
"Whose is it? Where did you get it? Can I try it?" asked Kait, her eyes aglow.
"I found it in the common room. I dunno whose it is. I was saving it for you to try," (there was a gasp from the crowd. When had Siri been so generous?) "so here you go."
Kait picked up the wand gingerly. "Which spell should I use?"
"Lumos?"
"Alhomora?"
"Wingardium Leviosa?"
"Well… I'd do Accio… but Lumos sounds easiest… so here we go…" she turned away from the wand so she could talk to Lily behind her. "Lumos! Well, it's not like it…" she trailed when she heard a gasp, and slowly turned to face the wand. The top was casting a warm glow over the table, accenting all the awed looks of those who were watching. Kait dropped the wand as if it had burned her. After swallowing, she picked it up again.
"Nox," she said, in a disembodied voice. The tip of the wand dimmed and went out. Kait just stared for a second.
"Miss Andrews! Look! Look at Kait!" yelled Stephanie over their heads. Miss Andrews came towards the table.
"Yes?" she asked.
"I… I did… Lumos… and… it…."
"What?"
"I'll… show you. OK, here we go. Lumos!" The wand tip lit up again. "And… Nox!" And the wand went out. At precisely that moment, Professor Dumbledore strode into the room.
"I say, what's all the commotion?" The girls glanced up at Dumbledore, then Kaitlyn frantically stuck the wand back in Siri's bag.
"Er, nothing, sir," said Kait, who was already starting to pick up the English terminology.
"Albus, I think… I think these kids should be changing classes," said Miss Andrews.
"Do you…?" asked Dumbledore.
"Yes. Kaitlyn here seems to have done some… done some… magic." She looked rather pale.
"Did she?" asked Dumbledore, raising an eyebrow. "Kaitlyn, may I see it?"
"Uh… yeah, sure, sir." She grabbed the wand from Siri's backpack.
"Where did you get the wand?"
"Uh… someone found it."
"I see. Continue." His eyes were twinkling merrily. Kait warily lit the wand. And put it out again.
"Can anyone else...?" Dumbledore asked.
"I don't think they've tried…"
"Do you want to?" Dumbledore asked the class. A deafening "YES!!!" followed, accompanied by a resounding "DUH!". The wand was slowly passed from person to person. They all, in time, managed to make the wand light up. Lily and Siri and Sally and Ariadne and Ally and others also managed it on the first try, and Kailie, as amazed as Kaitlyn, did the same. She was shaking when she passed it on.
"I agree. They do need to change classes. I think some tests to see where they are would be good," said Dumbledore, his eyes still twinkling wildly.
"But how are we supposed to know anything? No one bothered to teach us, or anything like that," complained Amy.
"You're right. Alright, let's start you off in first year. You're supposed to be gifted, so the teachers will allow you to progress as fast as you can. We'll see where you are at the end of the second term, alright?" Dumbledore, of course, said that, to nods, and OKs. Kait's eyes were shining almost as bright as Dumbledore's.
"I regret to say all the teachers are in classes at the moment. So today is a free day for you to wander about the castle as you wish. Also, we did order uniforms and supplies for all of you, they're on your chests now," Dumbledore said, and (although no one knew why he bothered) bowed himself out. Kait sat down with a 'poof!' on a poof. She looked rather stunned. But, as Lily thought, as she too plopped down, so did everyone. This was - naturally - hardly surprising.
Minutes passed, and Sally stood up. "Let's go see our stuff, guys," she said, and tore out of the classroom. Miss Andrews waved slightly - they were allowed, after all. Most of the girls trailed out after her.
"Ooh, I wonder how I look in the robes! Probably fat," remarked the slender Fiona.
"YOU ARE NOT FAT," everyone else screamed at her. The argument went on a while, but Fiona was silenced - if not convinced - by a few threats of "siccing" Kids Help Phone - or the wizard version of it - on her. The group slowly dwindled as the girls went to their common rooms. The Ravenclaws left the Hufflepuffs (none of the girls were in Slytherin anyway, although that option had been offered to Lily, who had turned it down), and trudged up to their own common room, which was in a tower near the center of the many-turreted Hogwarts Castle. Huffing, puffing, and grumbling about stairs (Ransom was a single floor school, and they were out of shape), they panted "Harry Potter" to the door and shuffled in. After lazing in the common room to catch their breath, they made their way up to their dormitory, the right-hand fourth year girls' dorm (there were five already in their dorm and five in the other). They left Suzy's bed untouched (Suzy was the only non-GATE in the dorm), and started rifling through the bags on their own. Kait grabbed her robes and scrambled to try them on, whereas Lily was much more interested in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, and Professor Fuzzwaddlebey's Exact Guide, Compendium, and Companion to All the Creatures You Don't Want to Meet in a Dark Alley (and Some You Do). (Lily was planning on taking Care of Magical Creatures, and of course Dumbledore had known.) Sally eventually also tried her robes on, and Kait was fiddling with her quills, finished inspecting her robes, but not bothering to take them off.
"Well, I have to get used to them, eh," was her explanation. (However, Lily scorned to touch, or even so much as glance at, her robes. Her explanation was that she hated skirts and dresses, always would, and pants were just fine for her, thank you very much) A few minutes later, finished with her bag, Kait whined, "I want my wand. I wonder when Dumbledore'll take us to buy them?"
"Me too. That sounds so cool. I hope soon," said Sally.
"I want to start learning something!" exclaimed Amy exasperatedly.
"I want to learn hexes. Maybe I won't need my claws… no, I'd miss them too much," said Lily, looking slightly mournful.
Kait looked at her watch. "Guys, it's twelve. Let's go have lunch."
"OK," said the girls. They all ditched their things (except Lily, who brought Professor Fuzzwaddlebey's Exact Guide, Compendium, and Companion to All the Creatures You Don't Want to Meet in a Dark Alley {and Some You Do}), and Kait quickly changed back into her normal Muggle clothes. They were now fully restored, and a bit hyperactive, so Kait and Lily had an arm- fight (like a sword fight but with their arms) on the stairs. Many a prefect looked at them like they were thinking of calling St. Mungo's, because calls of "parry" and "thrust" preceded them by about thirty seconds.
They finally all sat down to lunch (at the Gryffindor table),and, rather than starting conversation, Kait looked around. Fred and George were even more googly-eyed at Siri and Fiona than they'd been at breakfast (they were practically drooling), and while Siri probably wouldn't take all that much convincing, (or at least, something that Fred could manage) Kait started wondering how to make Fiona become obsessed with George.
Disclaimer: We would like to make it clear that we IN NO WAY own or claim to own, or any rights to, or any trademarks of any characters recognizable from the Harry Potter series by Joanne Kathleen Rowling. Or any trademarks, rights to, express or implied, to the Calgary Board of Education, or anything else at all you may recognize from anywhere else.
We also in no way own Ransom Jr. High or any teachers therein. ALL THE CHARACTERS IN THIS STORY THAT ARE NOT FROM THE HARRY POTTER SERIES WERE EXTRACTED FROM REAL LIFE AND ARE BASED ON REAL PEOPLE. PLEASE DO NOT SCREW AROUND WITH THEM, FOR WHATEVER REASON YOUR TWISTED MIND MAY THINK OF. However, we changed everyone's names (including our own). Neither do we mean to upset any supporters of the Canadian Alliance. If you support them, don't read this!
A/N: I wrote this with Ella Moon, so if you recognize her style of writing or word usage or whatever, then that'll be why. This is also my very first time posting so if things are a little screwed, I apologize. I'M LEARNING!!!
Chapter 3
The next day everyone went down for breakfast. The GATEs sat at the Gryffindor table. When asked why they weren't at their own tables, they said they wanted to be with their friends, and you could take your tables and put `em where the sun don't shine. At the other end of the table, George waved his hand in front of Fred's eyes.
"Yoo-hoo! Anybody home?" he asked.
"Just… thinking… I think I know why Dad likes Muggles so much," Fred answered.
"What? Why are you smiling?" George eyed the slight smile Fred wore suspiciously.
"Don't you think she's hot?" Fred answered, and pointed toward Siri.
"Um… no, not really. But she is hot," he pointed to Fiona. Fred eyed his brother warily, wondering if insanity was contagious. He shrugged and said, "See what I mean? Now I know why Dad loves Muggles so much."
"Uh-huh," (Lily and Kaitlyn happened to glance down the table at that particular point in time and saw the discussion going on between Fred and George. They also noted the sappy looks and goofy smiles on the twins' faces. They glanced at each other and burst out laughing)
Harry started to laugh. He stopped when he realized that Ron was not participating in the hilarity. "Ron?" Harry waved a hand in front of his friend's face. "Hellooo, Ron? Earth to Ron, come in Ron!"
"Huh?" Ron blinked and looked at Harry. "What?"
"Is there something wrong with you?" Harry said, having just noticed that Ron was staring at some blonde GATE girl and sighing (naturally, from behind, as she was talking to someone beside her and therefore facing away from Harry, he didn't recognize her as Kaitlyn Gainstein, the freak who knew a lot about him. And Ron. And everyone else).
"Uh, nooo…" Ron turned a very interesting shade of red and concentrated on his breakfast, which was already cold. Harry didn't believe him, but hey, what can you do with Ron when he's acting like this? Harry remembered Ron's last crush - split between Hermione (Harry had finally, over the summer, realized why Ron had disliked Krum so much) and Fleur, he'd been immovable.
At the Ravenclaw table as well eyes were turning towards the new girls. Terry Boot was sighing over Lily, (who, with Kait, turned blind when it came to boys looking at them) who was laughing her head off at Siri's Darth Vader impressions (*khhh* Luke, I'm choking on my own mucus *khhh*). In the meantime, Terry's friends either gave him funny looks or were ignoring him, seeing as they were doing the same, but over different girls. They really seemed to finally open their eyes to the girls, possibly because there were some new and different ones, which reminded them about the ones that they'd "grown up" with. Even at the Slytherin table, Pansy Parkinson's eyes strayed to Kirk T. The GATE kids were certainly becoming popular. Cupid (if you were there you might just have been able to see him flitting about across the sky-blue ceiling. Fiona noticed him, and heaved her sighs toward the teachers' table) was having something of a field day, although McGonagall was heard later accusing Dumbledore of setting him loose. Breakfast was truly enjoyable (despite the fact that Lily {and Siri, but she did that to all food except for Amerigonas} had eyed it suspiciously, and poked at it with her fork), though somewhat loud. Later they all went off to their classes. The GATE kids were told to go to the South Tower.
Many minutes of trudging up staircase after staircase, they finally got to the top of the South Tower, and went into the top. It was like a cozy living room, but with more tables. It was actually remarkably like Trelawney's room, but less stuffy and more Miss Andrews-ey.
"Hey, guys," Miss Andrews said. "OK, today is basically just getting you settled in at Hogwarts. Professor Dumbledore should be along any minute. Until then, you guys can talk."
Everyone started talking amongst themselves. Fiona was going on about Sirius Black, whom she seemed to have an insane crush on. Kait, Sally, and everyone else were trying to hold back laughs.
"You know, if he likes you back before five years from now, he'd be a pedophile," answered Ariadne (but she couldn't talk, she still had her heart set on a Norwegian murderer). They stopped short, however, when Siri told them to shut up (they didn't want her to eat them).
"Look what I've got," she said, and pulled a wand from her bag.
"Whose is it? Where did you get it? Can I try it?" asked Kait, her eyes aglow.
"I found it in the common room. I dunno whose it is. I was saving it for you to try," (there was a gasp from the crowd. When had Siri been so generous?) "so here you go."
Kait picked up the wand gingerly. "Which spell should I use?"
"Lumos?"
"Alhomora?"
"Wingardium Leviosa?"
"Well… I'd do Accio… but Lumos sounds easiest… so here we go…" she turned away from the wand so she could talk to Lily behind her. "Lumos! Well, it's not like it…" she trailed when she heard a gasp, and slowly turned to face the wand. The top was casting a warm glow over the table, accenting all the awed looks of those who were watching. Kait dropped the wand as if it had burned her. After swallowing, she picked it up again.
"Nox," she said, in a disembodied voice. The tip of the wand dimmed and went out. Kait just stared for a second.
"Miss Andrews! Look! Look at Kait!" yelled Stephanie over their heads. Miss Andrews came towards the table.
"Yes?" she asked.
"I… I did… Lumos… and… it…."
"What?"
"I'll… show you. OK, here we go. Lumos!" The wand tip lit up again. "And… Nox!" And the wand went out. At precisely that moment, Professor Dumbledore strode into the room.
"I say, what's all the commotion?" The girls glanced up at Dumbledore, then Kaitlyn frantically stuck the wand back in Siri's bag.
"Er, nothing, sir," said Kait, who was already starting to pick up the English terminology.
"Albus, I think… I think these kids should be changing classes," said Miss Andrews.
"Do you…?" asked Dumbledore.
"Yes. Kaitlyn here seems to have done some… done some… magic." She looked rather pale.
"Did she?" asked Dumbledore, raising an eyebrow. "Kaitlyn, may I see it?"
"Uh… yeah, sure, sir." She grabbed the wand from Siri's backpack.
"Where did you get the wand?"
"Uh… someone found it."
"I see. Continue." His eyes were twinkling merrily. Kait warily lit the wand. And put it out again.
"Can anyone else...?" Dumbledore asked.
"I don't think they've tried…"
"Do you want to?" Dumbledore asked the class. A deafening "YES!!!" followed, accompanied by a resounding "DUH!". The wand was slowly passed from person to person. They all, in time, managed to make the wand light up. Lily and Siri and Sally and Ariadne and Ally and others also managed it on the first try, and Kailie, as amazed as Kaitlyn, did the same. She was shaking when she passed it on.
"I agree. They do need to change classes. I think some tests to see where they are would be good," said Dumbledore, his eyes still twinkling wildly.
"But how are we supposed to know anything? No one bothered to teach us, or anything like that," complained Amy.
"You're right. Alright, let's start you off in first year. You're supposed to be gifted, so the teachers will allow you to progress as fast as you can. We'll see where you are at the end of the second term, alright?" Dumbledore, of course, said that, to nods, and OKs. Kait's eyes were shining almost as bright as Dumbledore's.
"I regret to say all the teachers are in classes at the moment. So today is a free day for you to wander about the castle as you wish. Also, we did order uniforms and supplies for all of you, they're on your chests now," Dumbledore said, and (although no one knew why he bothered) bowed himself out. Kait sat down with a 'poof!' on a poof. She looked rather stunned. But, as Lily thought, as she too plopped down, so did everyone. This was - naturally - hardly surprising.
Minutes passed, and Sally stood up. "Let's go see our stuff, guys," she said, and tore out of the classroom. Miss Andrews waved slightly - they were allowed, after all. Most of the girls trailed out after her.
"Ooh, I wonder how I look in the robes! Probably fat," remarked the slender Fiona.
"YOU ARE NOT FAT," everyone else screamed at her. The argument went on a while, but Fiona was silenced - if not convinced - by a few threats of "siccing" Kids Help Phone - or the wizard version of it - on her. The group slowly dwindled as the girls went to their common rooms. The Ravenclaws left the Hufflepuffs (none of the girls were in Slytherin anyway, although that option had been offered to Lily, who had turned it down), and trudged up to their own common room, which was in a tower near the center of the many-turreted Hogwarts Castle. Huffing, puffing, and grumbling about stairs (Ransom was a single floor school, and they were out of shape), they panted "Harry Potter" to the door and shuffled in. After lazing in the common room to catch their breath, they made their way up to their dormitory, the right-hand fourth year girls' dorm (there were five already in their dorm and five in the other). They left Suzy's bed untouched (Suzy was the only non-GATE in the dorm), and started rifling through the bags on their own. Kait grabbed her robes and scrambled to try them on, whereas Lily was much more interested in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, and Professor Fuzzwaddlebey's Exact Guide, Compendium, and Companion to All the Creatures You Don't Want to Meet in a Dark Alley (and Some You Do). (Lily was planning on taking Care of Magical Creatures, and of course Dumbledore had known.) Sally eventually also tried her robes on, and Kait was fiddling with her quills, finished inspecting her robes, but not bothering to take them off.
"Well, I have to get used to them, eh," was her explanation. (However, Lily scorned to touch, or even so much as glance at, her robes. Her explanation was that she hated skirts and dresses, always would, and pants were just fine for her, thank you very much) A few minutes later, finished with her bag, Kait whined, "I want my wand. I wonder when Dumbledore'll take us to buy them?"
"Me too. That sounds so cool. I hope soon," said Sally.
"I want to start learning something!" exclaimed Amy exasperatedly.
"I want to learn hexes. Maybe I won't need my claws… no, I'd miss them too much," said Lily, looking slightly mournful.
Kait looked at her watch. "Guys, it's twelve. Let's go have lunch."
"OK," said the girls. They all ditched their things (except Lily, who brought Professor Fuzzwaddlebey's Exact Guide, Compendium, and Companion to All the Creatures You Don't Want to Meet in a Dark Alley {and Some You Do}), and Kait quickly changed back into her normal Muggle clothes. They were now fully restored, and a bit hyperactive, so Kait and Lily had an arm- fight (like a sword fight but with their arms) on the stairs. Many a prefect looked at them like they were thinking of calling St. Mungo's, because calls of "parry" and "thrust" preceded them by about thirty seconds.
They finally all sat down to lunch (at the Gryffindor table),and, rather than starting conversation, Kait looked around. Fred and George were even more googly-eyed at Siri and Fiona than they'd been at breakfast (they were practically drooling), and while Siri probably wouldn't take all that much convincing, (or at least, something that Fred could manage) Kait started wondering how to make Fiona become obsessed with George.