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 4
"I want a wand!" whined Kait.
"Oh, shut up!" snapped Lily.
"Uh-oh. You've pissed her off. Stop whining now and maybe she'll let you live," cautioned Airinne. Lily responded by baring her (very sharp and dangerous-looking) teeth.
"But I want a wand!" continued Kait.
Lily snarled at her, brandishing her "claws". Kait whimpered and tried to hide behind Siri, who was looking worried, and also rather peeved.
"Hey, I know!" said Amy.
"What?" growled Lily.
"Let's go ambush a class!"
So that's what they did. Kind of. Sort of. No, not really. What REALLY happened was this:
They all decided to have a mock war, with each side having only two soldiers/warriors/whatchamawhozits. Lily and Kait were on one side, Airinne and Siri on another, with everybody else sort of clinging to each other and cowering in the corners. Airinne and Siri were chasing Lily and Kait down a hallway on the ground floor of the castle, while Lily was running out of breath and Kait was practically having an asthma attack. They spotted a slightly open door ahead of them, put on one final burst of speed and dashed in, slamming the door shut and locking it as soon as they were in.
"Er, what are you two doing?"
Lily and Kait spun around, chests heaving. They gasped for air (Kait had already dug out her puffer and was using it), their eyes frantically scanning the classroom which was not nearly as empty as they had thought. Lily cursed under her breath.
"Uh, well you see, professor, um, well, Airinne and Siri were chasing us, and, erm, well we, ah," stammered Kait. Lily swiftly interrupted. "Do those windows open?"
"Er, why, yes I believe so…"
"Good. Are they locked?"
"I don't think so…"
"Yes!" cried Lily. "Come on, Kait!"
"What?" Lily sighed in exasperation.
"All right, here's the plan. When Airinne and Siri start either picking the lock or trying to break the door down, we slip out the window and onto the castle grounds. Then we're home free!" Her eyes glinted fiercely. "All we have to do at the moment is open one of those windows and slip out." Kait was a quick study, and she soon got the idea. She sped over to a window and tried to open it. After several unsuccessful attempts, Lily threw up her hands in disgust, walked over to the window, and unlocked it. Kait blushed furiously. Lily then tried to open it. After she gave up, she turned to the class of fifth years (who had all just sat there staring) and requested their help. Actually, she didn't really do anything at all. This happened to be Terry Boots' class, and he wanted to impress her, for some odd reason. So when she said, "Um, look, apparently the window's stuck, and we can't get it open, could somebody…" he quickly stood up, walked over to the window and opened it. With the aid of his wand.
"Oh, so that's how you do it. Turns out we were doin' it wrong the whole time." said Kait.
"It figures."
With a quick "thank you" to Terry, they slipped out the window and dropped into the bushes below. He sighed after the girls (namely Lily) and then closed the window. He returned to his desk and sat down.
"Well," said Professor Flitwick, "that was an interesting experience. To continue with today's lesson…" Terry sighed and got back to work.
Meanwhile, outside the door…
"Let's break it down!" said Airinne. Siri called her a moron, but agreed. Airinne threw herself against the door a few times, then reeled away, her eyes glazed over slightly with pain. Siri called her a moron again.
"Why don't we just pick the stupid lock?" she suggested.
"You do it. That door made a deliberate attempt on my life!" said Airinne. Siri rolled her eyes and dug out a small metal wire and inserted it into the lock.
Out on the grounds…
"Let's go into the Forbidden Forest!"
"Are you insane?" exclaimed Kait.
"Well, I'm not sure, but I like to think I am," Lily said modestly.
"It's called the Forbidden Forest for a REASON, Lily."
"It is? Oh, gee, I thought they just called it that cause it sounded nice," joked Lily (well, actually, she said it sarcastically, but she meant it as a joke, and not an insult to Kait's intelligence {or intelligence in general}). "How about Hagrid's hut?"
"Oh, all right." They walked, still trying to catch their breath from the mad dash into the classroom. When they got there, they found the fifth year Gryffindors and Slytherins taking Care of Magical Creatures.
"SWEET!" exclaimed Lily, and raced forward.
"Hey! Wait up, Lily!"
Hagrid was just about to start a lesson on hippocampi (plural for hippocampus), when two strange girls sped into the middle of his class, crashing into two of his students. The blonde girl crashed into Ron Weasley, whereas the dark-haired girl crashed into Draco Malfoy. Well, they DID yell "LOOK OUT!" just before contact, their arms wind-milling and their feet skidding on the grass. The brunette had cursed, as well. When they disentangled themselves, (the brunette got up first and went to help the blonde while the boys were left to their own devices) the brunette had looked around brightly and said, "Did we miss anything?" Meanwhile the blonde inched away from her companion, blushing furiously because the two of them had interrupted two classes already, and she was considering the horrible possibility that they might actually get detention.
The class set off towards the lake, where the hippocampi were waiting. Ron walked along beside Harry, as usual, but he had an absent look on his face and his eyes were misted and dreamy-looking. Kaitlyn and Lily were busy chatting with each other, Lily talking eagerly about her hopes for the course. Hagrid didn't seem to mind having the two girls tag along, he'd rather have them with his class than running around disrupting, say, Divination. And they didn't seem to mind tagging along with an older class. Ron's misty eyes were locked on Kait's figure as she gestured and argued heatedly with Lily about something. In a few minutes he discovered that the subject of their heated debate, prompted by the lake, had been which shade of blue-green was teal and which was turquoise. After a while they stopped arguing, at which point Kait threw an arm about her friend's shoulders, and began singing. Or rather, she would have, but hadn't gotten much further than humming and singing softly (Kait had just begun a line that started "Bonhomme, Bonhomme") when they reached the lake.
A hippocampus reared out of the water, eyes rolling wildly and hooves flailing. After a little while it seemed to calm down. Not that Ron noticed, he was busy staring in a love-lorn fashion at Kait, while Harry had long since given up conversation with Ron, since the best answer he got was "Uh-huh", "Sure", "Whatever", and once Harry got a funny look from Ron. So he rolled his eyes and shrugged philosophically.
"Oh. My. God."
"What?"
"Did you just see that?"
"What, you mean the hippocampus?"
"Yeah, wasn't it sweet?"
"Well, sure, but… Oh no. You wouldn't…. Oh wait, yes you… LILY!!! GET BACK HERE, DON'T," but it was too late. Lily had broken away from the throng and was already racing towards the water, a bright light shining in her eyes.
"Omigod, omigod, omigod, omigod, omigod! This is SO SWEET!" she slowed her pace, and raised her hands so that the hippocampi would know that she meant no harm. She waded slowly into the water, while behind her Kait was wringing her hands and chewing her lower lip anxiously. Lily began crooning softly to the hippocampi, keeping her eyes on them, and trying to make herself appear as unthreatening as possible. A hippocampus relaxed, while the others sort of panicked and swam away a little. She walked up to it, still crooning and singing soothingly. She reached up a hand and stroked its shoulder. It shuddered, but stayed still. She continued to act as soothingly as she could, while stroking it gently.
The class (and Hagrid) looked on in awe.
However, when she reached up to pat its head and stroke its muzzle, it panicked and swung its heavily muscled tail in her general direction ("wild" animals in general being very paranoid about people touching their heads).
Unfortunately, the swing connected, and blew her out of the water. She shot towards the shore like a human cannonball, hit several people, and collapsed on the ground. She lay there, totally unmoving and unconscious, while Kait ran over and started freaking out. Just when Kait was about to perform CPR on her, Lily sat up groggily, shook her head to clear it, and then grinned.
"That was fun. Let's do it again!" At which point Hagrid, who had been worried that he might lose his teaching license because of this incident, fell over in a dead faint. Kait yelled, "I'll call the Men in White if you do!" And promptly hit her friend over the head.
Back outside Professor Flitwick's class, Siri had the lock picked and was trying to restrain Airinne from running in without her. After a minute, she gave up and they both ran in, and were immediately confronted by several dozen flying pillows, several of which were headed straight for the two girls.
"AAAHHH!!!"
Fiona, Ariadne and Ally were sitting in the library discussing things like make-up, religions, and boys when Lily and Kait wandered in (actually, Kait wandered in; Lily just sort of squelched), arguing heatedly.
"I wanted to go to the Forbidden Forest after CMC, but nooo, you didn't want to run into centaurs or werewolves or whatever. So now we're stuck in this…." Lily's voice trailed off. "Whoa. That's a lot of books. LET ME AT 'EM!!!" (she happened to be extremely hyper at the moment)
"Not again!" moaned Kait. And then ran after her friend in the hopes of stopping her before it was too late.
"Fiona, Ally, 'Adne, HELP!" The three other girls looked up and saw a dripping wet Lily straining and trying to run at the bookshelves, with Kait holding tightly to Lily's arm, trying to keep her in one place. The girls quickly ran to help Kait hold Lily back. After a while they finally managed to get Lily back under control, and they all went out of the library, so as to avoid any temptation for Lily. They were wandering around in the castle when a pillow flew out of the Charms classroom and hit Lily on the head, at which point she saw red and tried to get into the classroom so she could severely maim the person who threw the pillow. Or, if she couldn't find the culprit, just start mortally wounding anyone who came within reach. Kait grabbed the pillow and hit the struggling Lily (hard) upside the head with it.
"Thanks, I needed that."
"You're welcome." Lily then grabbed the pillow and threw it back into the Charms classroom, where it hit Siri. "PILLOW FIGHT!" yelled Airinne.
And so began the War of the Pillows, which lasted for about half an hour, disrupted several classes, and caused all students that weren't GATE or Muggle-born to hide under the desks and tables, while the rest of the school fought on. At the end of the War, all participants called a truce and went on with their day. The professors, thankfully, were actually very interested, and the Muggle Studies professor had his class take notes. Lily and Kait left the Charms classroom and wandered the halls, singing and arm-fighting.
"Parry!"
"Thrust!"
The problem with arm-fighting is that the duelers always "parry" at exactly the same time, and "thrust" at the exact same time, with the result that all they're doing is parrying. However, eventually one will score a hit, and the one who got hit will act as though wounded, but in an extremely fake way that is actually rather funny, especially if the proper staggers are included in the performance. Lily was hit several times in this manner, and the two were singing the Cheshire Cat Song (Jabberwocky, for those who know the actual name of the song), from Disney's "Alice in Wonderland" when they walked - smack! - right into Fiona and Ariadne.
"Sorry!"
"It's OK."
"Where are you going?"
"Miss Andrews' room." Kaitlyn looked inquisitively at Fiona.
"We're going to get a class schedule so we know where to go tomorrow," Adne (short for Ariadne) explained.
"Oh. That works," said Lily. "Mind if we join you?"
"Nope." And off they went.
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 4
"I want a wand!" whined Kait.
"Oh, shut up!" snapped Lily.
"Uh-oh. You've pissed her off. Stop whining now and maybe she'll let you live," cautioned Airinne. Lily responded by baring her (very sharp and dangerous-looking) teeth.
"But I want a wand!" continued Kait.
Lily snarled at her, brandishing her "claws". Kait whimpered and tried to hide behind Siri, who was looking worried, and also rather peeved.
"Hey, I know!" said Amy.
"What?" growled Lily.
"Let's go ambush a class!"
So that's what they did. Kind of. Sort of. No, not really. What REALLY happened was this:
They all decided to have a mock war, with each side having only two soldiers/warriors/whatchamawhozits. Lily and Kait were on one side, Airinne and Siri on another, with everybody else sort of clinging to each other and cowering in the corners. Airinne and Siri were chasing Lily and Kait down a hallway on the ground floor of the castle, while Lily was running out of breath and Kait was practically having an asthma attack. They spotted a slightly open door ahead of them, put on one final burst of speed and dashed in, slamming the door shut and locking it as soon as they were in.
"Er, what are you two doing?"
Lily and Kait spun around, chests heaving. They gasped for air (Kait had already dug out her puffer and was using it), their eyes frantically scanning the classroom which was not nearly as empty as they had thought. Lily cursed under her breath.
"Uh, well you see, professor, um, well, Airinne and Siri were chasing us, and, erm, well we, ah," stammered Kait. Lily swiftly interrupted. "Do those windows open?"
"Er, why, yes I believe so…"
"Good. Are they locked?"
"I don't think so…"
"Yes!" cried Lily. "Come on, Kait!"
"What?" Lily sighed in exasperation.
"All right, here's the plan. When Airinne and Siri start either picking the lock or trying to break the door down, we slip out the window and onto the castle grounds. Then we're home free!" Her eyes glinted fiercely. "All we have to do at the moment is open one of those windows and slip out." Kait was a quick study, and she soon got the idea. She sped over to a window and tried to open it. After several unsuccessful attempts, Lily threw up her hands in disgust, walked over to the window, and unlocked it. Kait blushed furiously. Lily then tried to open it. After she gave up, she turned to the class of fifth years (who had all just sat there staring) and requested their help. Actually, she didn't really do anything at all. This happened to be Terry Boots' class, and he wanted to impress her, for some odd reason. So when she said, "Um, look, apparently the window's stuck, and we can't get it open, could somebody…" he quickly stood up, walked over to the window and opened it. With the aid of his wand.
"Oh, so that's how you do it. Turns out we were doin' it wrong the whole time." said Kait.
"It figures."
With a quick "thank you" to Terry, they slipped out the window and dropped into the bushes below. He sighed after the girls (namely Lily) and then closed the window. He returned to his desk and sat down.
"Well," said Professor Flitwick, "that was an interesting experience. To continue with today's lesson…" Terry sighed and got back to work.
Meanwhile, outside the door…
"Let's break it down!" said Airinne. Siri called her a moron, but agreed. Airinne threw herself against the door a few times, then reeled away, her eyes glazed over slightly with pain. Siri called her a moron again.
"Why don't we just pick the stupid lock?" she suggested.
"You do it. That door made a deliberate attempt on my life!" said Airinne. Siri rolled her eyes and dug out a small metal wire and inserted it into the lock.
Out on the grounds…
"Let's go into the Forbidden Forest!"
"Are you insane?" exclaimed Kait.
"Well, I'm not sure, but I like to think I am," Lily said modestly.
"It's called the Forbidden Forest for a REASON, Lily."
"It is? Oh, gee, I thought they just called it that cause it sounded nice," joked Lily (well, actually, she said it sarcastically, but she meant it as a joke, and not an insult to Kait's intelligence {or intelligence in general}). "How about Hagrid's hut?"
"Oh, all right." They walked, still trying to catch their breath from the mad dash into the classroom. When they got there, they found the fifth year Gryffindors and Slytherins taking Care of Magical Creatures.
"SWEET!" exclaimed Lily, and raced forward.
"Hey! Wait up, Lily!"
Hagrid was just about to start a lesson on hippocampi (plural for hippocampus), when two strange girls sped into the middle of his class, crashing into two of his students. The blonde girl crashed into Ron Weasley, whereas the dark-haired girl crashed into Draco Malfoy. Well, they DID yell "LOOK OUT!" just before contact, their arms wind-milling and their feet skidding on the grass. The brunette had cursed, as well. When they disentangled themselves, (the brunette got up first and went to help the blonde while the boys were left to their own devices) the brunette had looked around brightly and said, "Did we miss anything?" Meanwhile the blonde inched away from her companion, blushing furiously because the two of them had interrupted two classes already, and she was considering the horrible possibility that they might actually get detention.
The class set off towards the lake, where the hippocampi were waiting. Ron walked along beside Harry, as usual, but he had an absent look on his face and his eyes were misted and dreamy-looking. Kaitlyn and Lily were busy chatting with each other, Lily talking eagerly about her hopes for the course. Hagrid didn't seem to mind having the two girls tag along, he'd rather have them with his class than running around disrupting, say, Divination. And they didn't seem to mind tagging along with an older class. Ron's misty eyes were locked on Kait's figure as she gestured and argued heatedly with Lily about something. In a few minutes he discovered that the subject of their heated debate, prompted by the lake, had been which shade of blue-green was teal and which was turquoise. After a while they stopped arguing, at which point Kait threw an arm about her friend's shoulders, and began singing. Or rather, she would have, but hadn't gotten much further than humming and singing softly (Kait had just begun a line that started "Bonhomme, Bonhomme") when they reached the lake.
A hippocampus reared out of the water, eyes rolling wildly and hooves flailing. After a little while it seemed to calm down. Not that Ron noticed, he was busy staring in a love-lorn fashion at Kait, while Harry had long since given up conversation with Ron, since the best answer he got was "Uh-huh", "Sure", "Whatever", and once Harry got a funny look from Ron. So he rolled his eyes and shrugged philosophically.
"Oh. My. God."
"What?"
"Did you just see that?"
"What, you mean the hippocampus?"
"Yeah, wasn't it sweet?"
"Well, sure, but… Oh no. You wouldn't…. Oh wait, yes you… LILY!!! GET BACK HERE, DON'T," but it was too late. Lily had broken away from the throng and was already racing towards the water, a bright light shining in her eyes.
"Omigod, omigod, omigod, omigod, omigod! This is SO SWEET!" she slowed her pace, and raised her hands so that the hippocampi would know that she meant no harm. She waded slowly into the water, while behind her Kait was wringing her hands and chewing her lower lip anxiously. Lily began crooning softly to the hippocampi, keeping her eyes on them, and trying to make herself appear as unthreatening as possible. A hippocampus relaxed, while the others sort of panicked and swam away a little. She walked up to it, still crooning and singing soothingly. She reached up a hand and stroked its shoulder. It shuddered, but stayed still. She continued to act as soothingly as she could, while stroking it gently.
The class (and Hagrid) looked on in awe.
However, when she reached up to pat its head and stroke its muzzle, it panicked and swung its heavily muscled tail in her general direction ("wild" animals in general being very paranoid about people touching their heads).
Unfortunately, the swing connected, and blew her out of the water. She shot towards the shore like a human cannonball, hit several people, and collapsed on the ground. She lay there, totally unmoving and unconscious, while Kait ran over and started freaking out. Just when Kait was about to perform CPR on her, Lily sat up groggily, shook her head to clear it, and then grinned.
"That was fun. Let's do it again!" At which point Hagrid, who had been worried that he might lose his teaching license because of this incident, fell over in a dead faint. Kait yelled, "I'll call the Men in White if you do!" And promptly hit her friend over the head.
Back outside Professor Flitwick's class, Siri had the lock picked and was trying to restrain Airinne from running in without her. After a minute, she gave up and they both ran in, and were immediately confronted by several dozen flying pillows, several of which were headed straight for the two girls.
"AAAHHH!!!"
Fiona, Ariadne and Ally were sitting in the library discussing things like make-up, religions, and boys when Lily and Kait wandered in (actually, Kait wandered in; Lily just sort of squelched), arguing heatedly.
"I wanted to go to the Forbidden Forest after CMC, but nooo, you didn't want to run into centaurs or werewolves or whatever. So now we're stuck in this…." Lily's voice trailed off. "Whoa. That's a lot of books. LET ME AT 'EM!!!" (she happened to be extremely hyper at the moment)
"Not again!" moaned Kait. And then ran after her friend in the hopes of stopping her before it was too late.
"Fiona, Ally, 'Adne, HELP!" The three other girls looked up and saw a dripping wet Lily straining and trying to run at the bookshelves, with Kait holding tightly to Lily's arm, trying to keep her in one place. The girls quickly ran to help Kait hold Lily back. After a while they finally managed to get Lily back under control, and they all went out of the library, so as to avoid any temptation for Lily. They were wandering around in the castle when a pillow flew out of the Charms classroom and hit Lily on the head, at which point she saw red and tried to get into the classroom so she could severely maim the person who threw the pillow. Or, if she couldn't find the culprit, just start mortally wounding anyone who came within reach. Kait grabbed the pillow and hit the struggling Lily (hard) upside the head with it.
"Thanks, I needed that."
"You're welcome." Lily then grabbed the pillow and threw it back into the Charms classroom, where it hit Siri. "PILLOW FIGHT!" yelled Airinne.
And so began the War of the Pillows, which lasted for about half an hour, disrupted several classes, and caused all students that weren't GATE or Muggle-born to hide under the desks and tables, while the rest of the school fought on. At the end of the War, all participants called a truce and went on with their day. The professors, thankfully, were actually very interested, and the Muggle Studies professor had his class take notes. Lily and Kait left the Charms classroom and wandered the halls, singing and arm-fighting.
"Parry!"
"Thrust!"
The problem with arm-fighting is that the duelers always "parry" at exactly the same time, and "thrust" at the exact same time, with the result that all they're doing is parrying. However, eventually one will score a hit, and the one who got hit will act as though wounded, but in an extremely fake way that is actually rather funny, especially if the proper staggers are included in the performance. Lily was hit several times in this manner, and the two were singing the Cheshire Cat Song (Jabberwocky, for those who know the actual name of the song), from Disney's "Alice in Wonderland" when they walked - smack! - right into Fiona and Ariadne.
"Sorry!"
"It's OK."
"Where are you going?"
"Miss Andrews' room." Kaitlyn looked inquisitively at Fiona.
"We're going to get a class schedule so we know where to go tomorrow," Adne (short for Ariadne) explained.
"Oh. That works," said Lily. "Mind if we join you?"
"Nope." And off they went.