Author's Note: Here's Chapter 13. I'd like to first say, is anyone reading this story. I'm getting only like 1 review per chapter now, which is giving me the impression that no one is reading it. If that's so and I don't get many more reviews, I'll discontinue the story.
Anyway, in the mean time, I'll say a few things about this chapter. Some things are kinda similar to the book, but oh well, it's still really different and I have totally different plans. As for the creature, I just picked one off Mugglenet (http://www.mugglenet.com) so I hope it fits.
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Chapter 13 - Detentions
Harry knew there was no time for them all to get back under the cloak, so he scooped it up and hid it from view, stuffing it in his robes.
The four Gryffindors peered up to see who they'd run into while trying to get back up to the Gryffindor Tower. As soon as they saw the greasy, black hair they knew it could only be one person - Professor Snape.
They all had looks of fear on their faces; he was the last person that they wanted to run into while breaking school rules, in the middle of the night. Especially since Dawn's outburst when Snape had vowed that he'd be watching for them to slip up.
He glared at them for a moment and then an evil-looking smirk appeared on his face.
"Now what are four first-year Gryffindors doing wandering the corridors in the middle of the night, breaking the school rules?" Snape questioned.
"But the most important question on my mind is," Once he'd begun the sentence, they all knew where it was leading and they swallowed quickly. "Where on earth you came from? I walked down this corridor not even 5 minutes ago."
"Uh," They all started to explain, but couldn't come up with any explanations to cover up the truth.
Lucky for them, they were interrupted by a set of footsteps, behind them. Dawn sucked in a quick breath of air, hoping it wasn't Willow. If it were Willow approaching, then there would be a good chance that she'd figure out what they'd been doing.
She released the breath she'd been holding when she heard Professor McGonagall's voice.
"What is going on here?" She demanded, furiously.
"Perhaps I shouldn't celebrate yet." Dawn though to herself.
"I caught Potter, Weasley, Granger and Summers wandering the corridors, I was just about to punish them." Snape explained.
McGonagall intervened. "I'll take care of that, Severus. After all, they are in my house."
She turned to face the four guilty people. "Now if you'll follow me to my office, we have to arrange your punishment."
They followed her grimly; Professor Snape glared at them as they walked past.
Once in the Head of Gryffindor House's office, they all stood at her desk while she sat down, with a look of disappointment and anger on her aging face.
"We have rules for a purpose, to keep the school and students safe. You have all disobeyed those rules and I'm extremely disappointed." She expressed with anger. "For that you will all receive detention on Thursday night and 50 points will be taken, each."
They looked at each other uneasily, but still not saying a word since McGonagall had noticed that they were wandering the corridors at night.
"You will now all go back to bed now, quickly." She said finally before turning away.
Dawn, Harry, Ron and Hermione all looked at each once more and then left the office. They were happy that McGonagall had rescued them from Snape, but annoyed that they now each had detention and had lost points for the Gryffindor House.
Dawn settled into her beds in the first year dormitories and went to sleep straight away because she was so utterly exhausted.
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The new day greeted her, but it wasn't such a friendly greeting. She remembered the events of the night before and how she'd lost Gryffindor 50 points and earned herself a detention.
Everyone in the common room that morning were curious as to why 150 points had suddenly vanished from the house points and who was responsible. Harry, Ron, Hermione and herself just tried to keep quiet and not draw attention to them.
At breakfast, they noticed Snape throw the occasional glare. He was clearly still annoyed from the night before when he had a chance to give unfair and severe punishments to them, but McGonagall had intervened.
While Dawn filled her plate with toast and eggs, Willow approached their table and stood behind Ron and Hermione, who were sitting opposite her and Harry.
"Good morning!" She declared, brightly, smiling at the four.
"Hi Willow. How are you?" Dawn asked amongst the greetings from the other three.
"I'm great. Hope you guys are good too, not too much work?" She chatted.
Ron shook his head. "Nah, we are okay. Although Snape never stops giving us work!" He began. "You would see him a lot when you're not teaching classes, do you think anyone would notice if you accidentally locked him up in a cupboard for a while?"
She chuckled. "I don't think I should do that anytime soon. Anyway, the point of me coming over here was to ask you something."
They all turned to look at her.
"I just discovered a Boggart hiding away in my office. I know they're more studied by second or third years, but if you wanted to learn some first hand extra Defence Against the Dark Arts things about it, you could come around tomorrow night, before it gets removed." She offered, babbling slightly.
They smiled at first, thinking it was a great opportunity but then something hit them. Tomorrow was Thursday, and they had their detentions then.
Hermione shook her head. "We can't, we've got detentions tomorrow night."
She frowned with interest. "What happened?"
"Oh, nothing much," Dawn said slowly, giving herself time to think. "Just... Professor Snape being his annoying, unfair self."
She got a few looks from the other three, but ignored them.
"Oh, in that case, there won't be any other chances to take up on my offer. Tonight I've got loads of work to look over," She said suddenly. "I'll see you all in our next class together."
She glided away from the table and back to her place on the teachers' table. Dawn continued on with her eggs and toast, sitting on her plate, waiting to be eaten.
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The dreaded detention on late Thursday evening arrived. Dawn was rugged up in her warmest clothes, even though it didn't make much difference because the cold wind was biting through her cloak, sending shivers down her spine.
Professor McGonagall escorted the four of them down to Hagrid's Hut. "You will be serving detention with Hagrid tonight."
"I wonder what we'll be doing." Dawn wondered.
They entered the hut and immediately rushed over to the fireplace to regain the warm they'd lost while walking down.
As Hagrid entered his home, McGonagall quietly left back for the castle. Hagrid turned and smiled at them, even though they were serving detention. Dawn smiled back; at least if she were to have a detention, the person she'd most prefer to serve it with would be Hagrid.
"Tonight yeh goin' to be splittin' into groups an' headin' into the Forbidden Forest." Hagrid explained.
"But, it is called the 'Forbidden Forest' for a reason! Why are we going in there?" Ron interrupted anxiously.
"We're lookin' for a creature. Just yesterday, one of the Jobberknoll's from the Care of Magical Creatures department of the school was accidentally set loose. It ran into the forest an' don't worry, it won' hurt yer, they're harmless." He continued.
They walked out of the hut and in the direction of the forest. They stopped at the perimeter of the forest, and Hagrid turned to face them.
"Okay, Ron an' Hermione will come with me." He clarified. "Dawn and Harry will go with Fang. Yer'll be safe if yer with me or Fang."
"What do we do if we find the Jobberknoll or get into any trouble?" Harry inquired.
"Jus' send up some sparks from yer wands."
The two groups split up and walked their separate ways. Dawn and Harry walked off into the darkness of the forest, the temperature getting cooler by the minute.
After a while of wandering with no activity or anything in sight at all, they decided that they should walk too far into the forest and turned back to retrace their steps.
As they turned back, they heard a rustling from the shadows. Dawn jumped a mile.
"What was that?" She panicked.
Harry shook his head. "I don't know."
They couldn't really see anything because the trees and bushes had gotten so thick that it even blocked out the light emitted from the moon.
Another noise startled them and they turned around and squinted, making out a dark silhouette approaching them.
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A.N - How was that? Please tell me, review with your comments or questions. Please! :)
Anyway, in the mean time, I'll say a few things about this chapter. Some things are kinda similar to the book, but oh well, it's still really different and I have totally different plans. As for the creature, I just picked one off Mugglenet (http://www.mugglenet.com) so I hope it fits.
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Chapter 13 - Detentions
Harry knew there was no time for them all to get back under the cloak, so he scooped it up and hid it from view, stuffing it in his robes.
The four Gryffindors peered up to see who they'd run into while trying to get back up to the Gryffindor Tower. As soon as they saw the greasy, black hair they knew it could only be one person - Professor Snape.
They all had looks of fear on their faces; he was the last person that they wanted to run into while breaking school rules, in the middle of the night. Especially since Dawn's outburst when Snape had vowed that he'd be watching for them to slip up.
He glared at them for a moment and then an evil-looking smirk appeared on his face.
"Now what are four first-year Gryffindors doing wandering the corridors in the middle of the night, breaking the school rules?" Snape questioned.
"But the most important question on my mind is," Once he'd begun the sentence, they all knew where it was leading and they swallowed quickly. "Where on earth you came from? I walked down this corridor not even 5 minutes ago."
"Uh," They all started to explain, but couldn't come up with any explanations to cover up the truth.
Lucky for them, they were interrupted by a set of footsteps, behind them. Dawn sucked in a quick breath of air, hoping it wasn't Willow. If it were Willow approaching, then there would be a good chance that she'd figure out what they'd been doing.
She released the breath she'd been holding when she heard Professor McGonagall's voice.
"What is going on here?" She demanded, furiously.
"Perhaps I shouldn't celebrate yet." Dawn though to herself.
"I caught Potter, Weasley, Granger and Summers wandering the corridors, I was just about to punish them." Snape explained.
McGonagall intervened. "I'll take care of that, Severus. After all, they are in my house."
She turned to face the four guilty people. "Now if you'll follow me to my office, we have to arrange your punishment."
They followed her grimly; Professor Snape glared at them as they walked past.
Once in the Head of Gryffindor House's office, they all stood at her desk while she sat down, with a look of disappointment and anger on her aging face.
"We have rules for a purpose, to keep the school and students safe. You have all disobeyed those rules and I'm extremely disappointed." She expressed with anger. "For that you will all receive detention on Thursday night and 50 points will be taken, each."
They looked at each other uneasily, but still not saying a word since McGonagall had noticed that they were wandering the corridors at night.
"You will now all go back to bed now, quickly." She said finally before turning away.
Dawn, Harry, Ron and Hermione all looked at each once more and then left the office. They were happy that McGonagall had rescued them from Snape, but annoyed that they now each had detention and had lost points for the Gryffindor House.
Dawn settled into her beds in the first year dormitories and went to sleep straight away because she was so utterly exhausted.
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The new day greeted her, but it wasn't such a friendly greeting. She remembered the events of the night before and how she'd lost Gryffindor 50 points and earned herself a detention.
Everyone in the common room that morning were curious as to why 150 points had suddenly vanished from the house points and who was responsible. Harry, Ron, Hermione and herself just tried to keep quiet and not draw attention to them.
At breakfast, they noticed Snape throw the occasional glare. He was clearly still annoyed from the night before when he had a chance to give unfair and severe punishments to them, but McGonagall had intervened.
While Dawn filled her plate with toast and eggs, Willow approached their table and stood behind Ron and Hermione, who were sitting opposite her and Harry.
"Good morning!" She declared, brightly, smiling at the four.
"Hi Willow. How are you?" Dawn asked amongst the greetings from the other three.
"I'm great. Hope you guys are good too, not too much work?" She chatted.
Ron shook his head. "Nah, we are okay. Although Snape never stops giving us work!" He began. "You would see him a lot when you're not teaching classes, do you think anyone would notice if you accidentally locked him up in a cupboard for a while?"
She chuckled. "I don't think I should do that anytime soon. Anyway, the point of me coming over here was to ask you something."
They all turned to look at her.
"I just discovered a Boggart hiding away in my office. I know they're more studied by second or third years, but if you wanted to learn some first hand extra Defence Against the Dark Arts things about it, you could come around tomorrow night, before it gets removed." She offered, babbling slightly.
They smiled at first, thinking it was a great opportunity but then something hit them. Tomorrow was Thursday, and they had their detentions then.
Hermione shook her head. "We can't, we've got detentions tomorrow night."
She frowned with interest. "What happened?"
"Oh, nothing much," Dawn said slowly, giving herself time to think. "Just... Professor Snape being his annoying, unfair self."
She got a few looks from the other three, but ignored them.
"Oh, in that case, there won't be any other chances to take up on my offer. Tonight I've got loads of work to look over," She said suddenly. "I'll see you all in our next class together."
She glided away from the table and back to her place on the teachers' table. Dawn continued on with her eggs and toast, sitting on her plate, waiting to be eaten.
* * *
The dreaded detention on late Thursday evening arrived. Dawn was rugged up in her warmest clothes, even though it didn't make much difference because the cold wind was biting through her cloak, sending shivers down her spine.
Professor McGonagall escorted the four of them down to Hagrid's Hut. "You will be serving detention with Hagrid tonight."
"I wonder what we'll be doing." Dawn wondered.
They entered the hut and immediately rushed over to the fireplace to regain the warm they'd lost while walking down.
As Hagrid entered his home, McGonagall quietly left back for the castle. Hagrid turned and smiled at them, even though they were serving detention. Dawn smiled back; at least if she were to have a detention, the person she'd most prefer to serve it with would be Hagrid.
"Tonight yeh goin' to be splittin' into groups an' headin' into the Forbidden Forest." Hagrid explained.
"But, it is called the 'Forbidden Forest' for a reason! Why are we going in there?" Ron interrupted anxiously.
"We're lookin' for a creature. Just yesterday, one of the Jobberknoll's from the Care of Magical Creatures department of the school was accidentally set loose. It ran into the forest an' don't worry, it won' hurt yer, they're harmless." He continued.
They walked out of the hut and in the direction of the forest. They stopped at the perimeter of the forest, and Hagrid turned to face them.
"Okay, Ron an' Hermione will come with me." He clarified. "Dawn and Harry will go with Fang. Yer'll be safe if yer with me or Fang."
"What do we do if we find the Jobberknoll or get into any trouble?" Harry inquired.
"Jus' send up some sparks from yer wands."
The two groups split up and walked their separate ways. Dawn and Harry walked off into the darkness of the forest, the temperature getting cooler by the minute.
After a while of wandering with no activity or anything in sight at all, they decided that they should walk too far into the forest and turned back to retrace their steps.
As they turned back, they heard a rustling from the shadows. Dawn jumped a mile.
"What was that?" She panicked.
Harry shook his head. "I don't know."
They couldn't really see anything because the trees and bushes had gotten so thick that it even blocked out the light emitted from the moon.
Another noise startled them and they turned around and squinted, making out a dark silhouette approaching them.
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A.N - How was that? Please tell me, review with your comments or questions. Please! :)