Try as she might, Jenna was not able to engage Snape in conversation that night and ended up just turning from him completely and focusing her attention on Hagrid. Hagrid on the other hand, although happy to have her attention was a bit jealous that she even put that much effort into conversing with snape. He sighed inwardly to himself. Of course she would be more attracted to a man like Snape and not to a half giant like him.
Jenna sensed his underlying sadness but didn't question him. After supper they made their way to the great room and he offered to show her his cottage and to meet Fang. She smiled at him and taking his arm again, off they went. Snape watched them thoughtfully from where he was standing, near the back wall.
In Hagrid's cottage, she was greeted by a very large, drooly dog. "This is Fang" said Hagrid. Jenna smiled with delight as Fang approved of her and began to smother her in wet doggy kisses. Hagrid attempted to pull Fang off of her, knowing that women didn't like to be slobbered on, but after a moment he realized Jenna was giggling and petting Fang, so he gave up the fight.
He poured himself and Jenna a cup of tea and they sat for hours, talking about everything under the sun and under distant stars. He told her of Voldemort and Harry's story more completely. She told him of her Grandfather, how he balanced the force out with his death.
He told her of how his mom left him, giving into her Giant ways and how his dad was so proud of everything he did. She told him of her parents and how they met. He told her of school here at Hogwarts and how he was kicked out but Dumbledore believed in him. Jenna's opinion of Albus went up a notch at that point.
She told him of her Jedi training on Yavin 4 and of her brothers always hovering over her, trying to protect her when most of the time she ended up protecting them.
On and on they shared until they realized it was 2 in the morning. With great regret they bid each other good night and she walked alone to the castle, him watching her from the doorway. As she passed a patch of woods, she looked to the left suddenly and saw a large black shaggy dog watching her silently. She felt an unease around this animal that she didn't usually feel around animals. There was something about this dog that was not right. She shrugged and giving it one more look, she hurried to the castle and into the school.
She made her way to her room and as she got ready for bed, she had no idea that her ability to teach had already been questioned by the students.
Many of them had wondered how a tiny woman such as she was going to teach them to physically defend themselves, but they would find out soon enough.
The morning came, bright and early and Jenna had to drag herself from her bed to do her morning routine. She had thought about Hagrid long after turning into bed. Throwing on her workout clothes, baggy black pants and a cropped off tank top, she grabbed her light saber and her laser ball and headed outside, not seeing a student up yet.
She walked towards the quidditch field, not knowing what it was used for. She did not realize that in 10 minutes the Gryfindorr team would be coming out to practice.
From the pocket of her pants, she pulled a jeweled scarf and having set the timing and power on the laser ball, she tied the scarf around her eyes and shot her saber to life. With a spoken word, she was off "Go"
Instantly the laser ball started to spin and within seconds, the first laser beam shot at her, which she easily dodged. Within seconds a second beam was shot and she deflected this one harmlessly away with her lightsaber. Over and over the ball shot laser beams at her. After the first 40 shots, the laser ball sped up how many shots it would fire. By the time the quidditch team arrived at the field, brooms in hand, she was just a whirl in the middle of the field. The ends of her sash flying from the back of her head. Her lightsaber a purple streak as she deflected bolts of blue energy. She lept and twisted and avoided every shot.
The team was in shock. Soon, more students began to join them, silently watching in awe as she dueled with the mechanical ball. The grace of her movements resembled that of a great gymnist, but the accuracy of her aim at deflecting the bolts proved that this was no game.
About 20 minutes later she deflected the last bolt and spoke again. "Stop". Pressing the button, the blade of her lightsaber zapped away and she clipped it to her belt in one fluid movement. She reached up to untie the sash. The front of her shirt, soaked in sweat, as well as the sash. Her chest heaving from the exertion she removed the sash and turned to find about half of the student body on the edge of the field watching her silently.
As she turned towards them, they suddenly burst into applause, the sound thundering through the almost empty field. Executing a well practiced curtsy, she started to walk towards them, the laser ball following behind her, hovering about eye level. As she reached them she reached out a hand and grabbed the laser ball and smiled to them.
A mousy boy in the front spoke up. "Is that what you will be teaching us, Professor Skywalker?" Jenna laughed at him and a sighed voice said "Oh Neville". "No, not exactly. I will be teaching you to be more quick on your feet and to know when is the right time to make a move and when is the right time to defend and dodge. I will be giving an example of what you have just seen tonight using attacking students. Any may try. As for now, I need to freshen up and get something to eat. Excuse me!" With a graceful bow, she turned and walked towards the castle, waving to Hagrid, who was standing, water the pumpkins, watching her walk. He didn't notice that the water was running along the ground, saturating the water.
Entering the castle, she started to make her way towards the stairs when a voice stopped her. "Very impressive." She turned to face Snape. "Thank you, Professor Snape." He scowled at her "You do know that the field is a playing field and you stopped the Gryfindorr team from practicing this morning, right?"
Jenna paled a bit "I had no clue. Well, I will apologize to the team and find a new place to practice then. If you will excuse me, I need to shower." With a bow and a slight frown, she moved towards the stairs and hurried to her room without further incident. She wondered why she got the feeling that Professor Snape didn't like her. It would be a bit longer before she realized that he treated everyone that way.
Jenna took a nice, steamy shower and then dried herself off on one of the fluffy towels the school provided. Wrapping it around herself, she walked towards the dresser and reached into the top drawer and pulled out a miniscule suitcase, about the size of a matchbox.
She pressed a small indentation on the handle and immediately the small suitcase grew to the size of a large trunk. She popped open the top and pulled out some underclothes. She laid them on the bed, then pushed the indentation again and it shrunk back down. She placed it back in the dresser and pulled out another small suitcase. She laid this on the bed and pressed the indentation again and an even larger trunk was soon before her.
Popping the lid, she shook her head at the ingenuity of her brother, Anakin, for creating these for her. She pulled out a light violet silvery gown. She also pulled the dark purple robe and ladies slippers that went with it. She shrunk the suitcase and put it away. Quickly, she got into her underclothes and then lifted the gown. She slid it over her petite frame and it fell to her feet, lightly touching the ground. A small train behind her. It was an emperess style gown made of a fabric native to Chewbacca's homeworld. As a matter of fact, it had been a birthday gift from her godfather, Chewwie.
The fabric was like nothing on this planet. It glimmered like a metalic, felt like velvet and was as lightweight as silk. It breathed like cotton. She slipped her feet into her shoes and looked at herself in the mirror and sighed. She really did hate the "casual" clothes she was forced to wear. She was a jedi and usually could get away with pants and tunics, but if she was on a mission such as this, she was required by her rank as Jedi Master and Princess, to wear this outfit.
Sighing, she started to brush her hair and pulled it up in the two bun fashion of her mother. Putting on her robe and attaching her lightsaber to the special holder on the inside of it, she walked from the room. Even though she was more comfortable in her work clothes, this outfit was one of her favorites and she suddenly grinned at what Hagrid might say of it.
She was just coming down the stairs, not really paying attention to the looks that various students were giving her. Just an hour ago she had been fighting fiercely on their Quidditch field and now she looked like nobility.
Hagrid walked in the front doors and looked up right as she noticed him. A smile of delight crossed her face as she hurried down the stairs to great him. He, on the other hand, stared dumbfounded at the beautiful woman coming to him. He had thought her beautiful before this, but seeing her in the gown really shook him to the core. A part of him cried to his heart, "Hagrid, this woman can not be for you, back off, back off." His heart paid no attention.
Jenna approached him and slipped her arm through his, and he felt as if he were escorting a princess. "Hagrid, who was to be practicing on the field this morning?" Hagrid stared at her for a moment before answering "Uhhh, the Gryfindorr team."
"Ok, well, I think I interuppted their playing time, so I should apologize. Which ones are they?" Hagrid smiled to her "Harry is on the team, he will tell you who the others are. They will probably be sitting near him at the table. Just say it to the whole table, no problem." She nodded and heads turned and voices stopped as they entered the room.
She headed directly for Harry's table and stopped there. "I didn't realize that your team had practice this morning. I am sorry I disrupted it." After the students assured her that it was no harm done, she moved towards the table where Hagrid held her chair out for her. She gave him a big smile. Using the force a bit, she slid his chair out for him and when he sat in it, slid it back in.
The students watching them all laughed loudly at his red face at her doing this for him. Hagrid leaned over to her. "Tomorrow is a Quidditch game, are you going to attend?"
The food appeared and she looked towards him "What is Quidditch anyways?" As they ate, Hagrid explained Quidditch to her and at the end of the meal she looked thrilled "Of course. I can't wait to go." He nodded to her and they stood together and walked from the great room after the meal was done, talking all the while.
The went different ways, she went to her rooms and contacted R2 who told her that he got communications up, but only outgoing. She told him to send out a message on the family's current channel, they changed it every 6 months. R2 immediately sent out a message with their coordinates and went about getting the rest of communications up. She did some paperwork in her room and then left to wander the grounds. She approached the forest and walked in a ways.
Suddenly she stopped and turned slowly. The big black dog was back. She frowned slightly and spoke "What are you?" The dog gave her a strange look and suddenly a man was standing before her. She took a step back, staring at him. He was watching her. "My name is Sirius. I am Harry's Godfather". She smiled at that and walked towards him, giving a bow "My name is Jenna Skywalker, I am to teach the students physical defense." Sirius nodded "Albus told me." Jenna nodded and they continued to walk, as if they were old friends. Sirius was amazed at how easy she was to talk to. The first time he had seen her, her beauty took his breathe away. Suddenly they came upon a strange craft in the forest and he stopped, staring at it. He looked to her, thinking he would see fear, but she just approached with no fear. A moving trash can came around from the other side and started towards her.
"Jenna, be careful." He called out, he moved to help her, but stopped when she gave him a strange look. "Be careful of what, Sirius?" Sirius gestured helplessly to the "trashbin" and the craft and she smiled to him "They are mine. I told you I wasn't from England." He started to laugh and after she retrieved something from the droid they left the clearing. He listened in fascination as she told him about her life.
As they reached the edge of the forest, he said good bye and then reverted back to dog form. He watched her walk towards the castle and heard Hagrid shout to her. She turned and took Hagrid's offered arm, walking with him. He saw the look on her face, it was the same that Lily gave James so many years ago. He smiled to himself and turned into the forest.
Jenna sensed his underlying sadness but didn't question him. After supper they made their way to the great room and he offered to show her his cottage and to meet Fang. She smiled at him and taking his arm again, off they went. Snape watched them thoughtfully from where he was standing, near the back wall.
In Hagrid's cottage, she was greeted by a very large, drooly dog. "This is Fang" said Hagrid. Jenna smiled with delight as Fang approved of her and began to smother her in wet doggy kisses. Hagrid attempted to pull Fang off of her, knowing that women didn't like to be slobbered on, but after a moment he realized Jenna was giggling and petting Fang, so he gave up the fight.
He poured himself and Jenna a cup of tea and they sat for hours, talking about everything under the sun and under distant stars. He told her of Voldemort and Harry's story more completely. She told him of her Grandfather, how he balanced the force out with his death.
He told her of how his mom left him, giving into her Giant ways and how his dad was so proud of everything he did. She told him of her parents and how they met. He told her of school here at Hogwarts and how he was kicked out but Dumbledore believed in him. Jenna's opinion of Albus went up a notch at that point.
She told him of her Jedi training on Yavin 4 and of her brothers always hovering over her, trying to protect her when most of the time she ended up protecting them.
On and on they shared until they realized it was 2 in the morning. With great regret they bid each other good night and she walked alone to the castle, him watching her from the doorway. As she passed a patch of woods, she looked to the left suddenly and saw a large black shaggy dog watching her silently. She felt an unease around this animal that she didn't usually feel around animals. There was something about this dog that was not right. She shrugged and giving it one more look, she hurried to the castle and into the school.
She made her way to her room and as she got ready for bed, she had no idea that her ability to teach had already been questioned by the students.
Many of them had wondered how a tiny woman such as she was going to teach them to physically defend themselves, but they would find out soon enough.
The morning came, bright and early and Jenna had to drag herself from her bed to do her morning routine. She had thought about Hagrid long after turning into bed. Throwing on her workout clothes, baggy black pants and a cropped off tank top, she grabbed her light saber and her laser ball and headed outside, not seeing a student up yet.
She walked towards the quidditch field, not knowing what it was used for. She did not realize that in 10 minutes the Gryfindorr team would be coming out to practice.
From the pocket of her pants, she pulled a jeweled scarf and having set the timing and power on the laser ball, she tied the scarf around her eyes and shot her saber to life. With a spoken word, she was off "Go"
Instantly the laser ball started to spin and within seconds, the first laser beam shot at her, which she easily dodged. Within seconds a second beam was shot and she deflected this one harmlessly away with her lightsaber. Over and over the ball shot laser beams at her. After the first 40 shots, the laser ball sped up how many shots it would fire. By the time the quidditch team arrived at the field, brooms in hand, she was just a whirl in the middle of the field. The ends of her sash flying from the back of her head. Her lightsaber a purple streak as she deflected bolts of blue energy. She lept and twisted and avoided every shot.
The team was in shock. Soon, more students began to join them, silently watching in awe as she dueled with the mechanical ball. The grace of her movements resembled that of a great gymnist, but the accuracy of her aim at deflecting the bolts proved that this was no game.
About 20 minutes later she deflected the last bolt and spoke again. "Stop". Pressing the button, the blade of her lightsaber zapped away and she clipped it to her belt in one fluid movement. She reached up to untie the sash. The front of her shirt, soaked in sweat, as well as the sash. Her chest heaving from the exertion she removed the sash and turned to find about half of the student body on the edge of the field watching her silently.
As she turned towards them, they suddenly burst into applause, the sound thundering through the almost empty field. Executing a well practiced curtsy, she started to walk towards them, the laser ball following behind her, hovering about eye level. As she reached them she reached out a hand and grabbed the laser ball and smiled to them.
A mousy boy in the front spoke up. "Is that what you will be teaching us, Professor Skywalker?" Jenna laughed at him and a sighed voice said "Oh Neville". "No, not exactly. I will be teaching you to be more quick on your feet and to know when is the right time to make a move and when is the right time to defend and dodge. I will be giving an example of what you have just seen tonight using attacking students. Any may try. As for now, I need to freshen up and get something to eat. Excuse me!" With a graceful bow, she turned and walked towards the castle, waving to Hagrid, who was standing, water the pumpkins, watching her walk. He didn't notice that the water was running along the ground, saturating the water.
Entering the castle, she started to make her way towards the stairs when a voice stopped her. "Very impressive." She turned to face Snape. "Thank you, Professor Snape." He scowled at her "You do know that the field is a playing field and you stopped the Gryfindorr team from practicing this morning, right?"
Jenna paled a bit "I had no clue. Well, I will apologize to the team and find a new place to practice then. If you will excuse me, I need to shower." With a bow and a slight frown, she moved towards the stairs and hurried to her room without further incident. She wondered why she got the feeling that Professor Snape didn't like her. It would be a bit longer before she realized that he treated everyone that way.
Jenna took a nice, steamy shower and then dried herself off on one of the fluffy towels the school provided. Wrapping it around herself, she walked towards the dresser and reached into the top drawer and pulled out a miniscule suitcase, about the size of a matchbox.
She pressed a small indentation on the handle and immediately the small suitcase grew to the size of a large trunk. She popped open the top and pulled out some underclothes. She laid them on the bed, then pushed the indentation again and it shrunk back down. She placed it back in the dresser and pulled out another small suitcase. She laid this on the bed and pressed the indentation again and an even larger trunk was soon before her.
Popping the lid, she shook her head at the ingenuity of her brother, Anakin, for creating these for her. She pulled out a light violet silvery gown. She also pulled the dark purple robe and ladies slippers that went with it. She shrunk the suitcase and put it away. Quickly, she got into her underclothes and then lifted the gown. She slid it over her petite frame and it fell to her feet, lightly touching the ground. A small train behind her. It was an emperess style gown made of a fabric native to Chewbacca's homeworld. As a matter of fact, it had been a birthday gift from her godfather, Chewwie.
The fabric was like nothing on this planet. It glimmered like a metalic, felt like velvet and was as lightweight as silk. It breathed like cotton. She slipped her feet into her shoes and looked at herself in the mirror and sighed. She really did hate the "casual" clothes she was forced to wear. She was a jedi and usually could get away with pants and tunics, but if she was on a mission such as this, she was required by her rank as Jedi Master and Princess, to wear this outfit.
Sighing, she started to brush her hair and pulled it up in the two bun fashion of her mother. Putting on her robe and attaching her lightsaber to the special holder on the inside of it, she walked from the room. Even though she was more comfortable in her work clothes, this outfit was one of her favorites and she suddenly grinned at what Hagrid might say of it.
She was just coming down the stairs, not really paying attention to the looks that various students were giving her. Just an hour ago she had been fighting fiercely on their Quidditch field and now she looked like nobility.
Hagrid walked in the front doors and looked up right as she noticed him. A smile of delight crossed her face as she hurried down the stairs to great him. He, on the other hand, stared dumbfounded at the beautiful woman coming to him. He had thought her beautiful before this, but seeing her in the gown really shook him to the core. A part of him cried to his heart, "Hagrid, this woman can not be for you, back off, back off." His heart paid no attention.
Jenna approached him and slipped her arm through his, and he felt as if he were escorting a princess. "Hagrid, who was to be practicing on the field this morning?" Hagrid stared at her for a moment before answering "Uhhh, the Gryfindorr team."
"Ok, well, I think I interuppted their playing time, so I should apologize. Which ones are they?" Hagrid smiled to her "Harry is on the team, he will tell you who the others are. They will probably be sitting near him at the table. Just say it to the whole table, no problem." She nodded and heads turned and voices stopped as they entered the room.
She headed directly for Harry's table and stopped there. "I didn't realize that your team had practice this morning. I am sorry I disrupted it." After the students assured her that it was no harm done, she moved towards the table where Hagrid held her chair out for her. She gave him a big smile. Using the force a bit, she slid his chair out for him and when he sat in it, slid it back in.
The students watching them all laughed loudly at his red face at her doing this for him. Hagrid leaned over to her. "Tomorrow is a Quidditch game, are you going to attend?"
The food appeared and she looked towards him "What is Quidditch anyways?" As they ate, Hagrid explained Quidditch to her and at the end of the meal she looked thrilled "Of course. I can't wait to go." He nodded to her and they stood together and walked from the great room after the meal was done, talking all the while.
The went different ways, she went to her rooms and contacted R2 who told her that he got communications up, but only outgoing. She told him to send out a message on the family's current channel, they changed it every 6 months. R2 immediately sent out a message with their coordinates and went about getting the rest of communications up. She did some paperwork in her room and then left to wander the grounds. She approached the forest and walked in a ways.
Suddenly she stopped and turned slowly. The big black dog was back. She frowned slightly and spoke "What are you?" The dog gave her a strange look and suddenly a man was standing before her. She took a step back, staring at him. He was watching her. "My name is Sirius. I am Harry's Godfather". She smiled at that and walked towards him, giving a bow "My name is Jenna Skywalker, I am to teach the students physical defense." Sirius nodded "Albus told me." Jenna nodded and they continued to walk, as if they were old friends. Sirius was amazed at how easy she was to talk to. The first time he had seen her, her beauty took his breathe away. Suddenly they came upon a strange craft in the forest and he stopped, staring at it. He looked to her, thinking he would see fear, but she just approached with no fear. A moving trash can came around from the other side and started towards her.
"Jenna, be careful." He called out, he moved to help her, but stopped when she gave him a strange look. "Be careful of what, Sirius?" Sirius gestured helplessly to the "trashbin" and the craft and she smiled to him "They are mine. I told you I wasn't from England." He started to laugh and after she retrieved something from the droid they left the clearing. He listened in fascination as she told him about her life.
As they reached the edge of the forest, he said good bye and then reverted back to dog form. He watched her walk towards the castle and heard Hagrid shout to her. She turned and took Hagrid's offered arm, walking with him. He saw the look on her face, it was the same that Lily gave James so many years ago. He smiled to himself and turned into the forest.