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Dumbledore had gone off to Floo someone to check on Ginny and Nikki's families. After all, sending them home wouldn't do much good if their families didn't even exist! Nikki was pretty sure that Snape felt that he had been left as the babysitter and he wasn't happy about it. Was he ever happy about anything?
Nikki glanced at Ginny and realized that Snape's behavior was not without reason. Ginny was playing with a bunch of quills. She was making up voices for them and acting out some sort of rendition of their online chats. It wasn't too hard to pick that up since one particularly pathetic-looking quill kept shoving another beautiful quill off the desk… in Ginny's little world it was probably the window. Snape kept giving the girl exasperated looks and finally yanked the pathetic quill out of her hands. He quickly transfigured the quill into a little ball and handed it back to Ginny.
Ginny giggled and scooted her chair around so that she was facing the wall, leaned back, and started bouncing the ball off the wall and catching it. Nikki, feeling fairly restless, suddenly had the urge to annoy Snape for no reason at all. It wasn't like he was going to do anything to her anyways. She smirked.
"It's a good ship, lollipop. It's a good ship, lollipop," she sang. Honestly, that was the only line of the entire song that she knew! But she continued to sing anyway.
As if sensing what Nikki was doing, Ginny giggled and forgot to catch the ball. It smacked her in the forehead and caused her already precarious balance to become non-existent. The chair tipped and she fell backwards with a shriek.
"Owie," Ginny laughed, rubbing her head.
Nikki snorted and kept on singing.
"Will you shut up?" Snape asked irritably.
Nikki shook her head and Ginny chirped a happy "nope" as she picked her chair up and sat down again. She studied her new ball for a minute before pocketing it in her jacket. The door creaked, and Nikki immediately stopped singing. Both girls began looking around innocently as Dumbledore stepped back into the office.
"Well, I have some very interesting news indeed," Dumbledore said cheerfully. He handed two sticks that he was carrying to Nikki and Ginny. "These are from Mr. Ollivander down in Diagon Alley. He seemed to know you, Miss Black, quite well, and acted as if everyone should know you, Miss Jones. Your families, however, do not seem to be in existence."
Ginny was dangled the stick from in-between two fingers and looked at it curiously. "Huh. Dragon heartstring… ash… ten inches, I'd say. What's yours, Nik?" Nikki blinked at her and glanced at her own wand. Well… it was kind of red… kind of… woody…. Before she had a chance to *ahem* analyze the wand further, Ginny had snatched it and was turning the thing over in her hands, balancing it and studying it. She even smelled it. "Looks like mahogany. Most likely unicorn hair. About eight and one half inches. Is that right, Professor?"
Dumbledore chuckled. "It is indeed, Miss Jones. Now, until we find somewhere for you to go, you will be staying at Hogwarts and attending classes with the students."
Ginny jumped up and threw her hands out, whooping. Poor Snape. Her hand smacked him on the nose.
Nikki laughed and tugged Ginny back down into her seat. Dumbledore did not conceal his mirth and his eyes twinkled merrily. He clapped his hands and stood up. "Now, down we go for a bit of lunch and your honorary sorting!"
Ginny squealed and took Nikki's hand and Snape's shirt and dragged them out of the office and down the stairs. She stopped abruptly at the bottom and Snape ran into her. Nikki watched as the two tumbled to the ground and Ginny popped right back up as if she had landed on rubber. "Wee!" She clapped her hands. "That was even more fun than running into the wall!" she exclaimed, looking down at Snape. "What're you doing down there?"
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Everyone was looking at them when they followed McGonagall up the center aisle in the Great Hall. Nikki was fidgeting with her new school uniform, which was really just her transfigured pajamas.
Ginny poked her in the ribs. "Are they all looking at us?"
Nikki rolled her eyes and replied sarcastically. "No, they're looking at the Goodyear Blimp."
Ginny's eyebrows shot up. "Where?" She spun around, tripped on her robes, and fell over.
They somehow managed to reach the front without serious injury. Professor McGonagall summoned the sorting stool and looked back at the girls. Oh fun. Sorting.
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